PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cebes, Outlast, Epiphenomenalism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Socrates says: those who practice common virtues are going to be reborn as creatures. Plato(cid:859)s philosophical ideal : simmias and cebes: philosophers must always ask questions, they must seek out what is true. Before we can appreciate counter arguments, we need to recollect the kinship argument conclusion: If you have two things, one visible and the other invisible, the invisible one is always more constant and more durable: attunement- harmony. Simmias says: harmony of a musical instrument is completely invisble, you cannot see harmony or attunement. In regards to kinship: the invisible must be more durable and longer lasting than the instrument itself. From abuse strings break, wood cracks; but the instrument still remains in your living room, therefore the harmony and attunement must remain in your living room too. But this is(cid:374)(cid:859)t true because in reality: the harmony/ attunement is the very first thing to perish.