PHIL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Doxa, Dialectic, Dianoia
9 Aug 2019
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You already know that plato distinguishes two worlds: the sensible and the intelligible. You also know that the intelligible world and its structure are reflected in the sensitive. Plato is the first philosopher to realize a complete and profound theory about knowledge. Previous philosophers had either not become a problem of the question of knowledge or had been skeptical of the possibility of obtaining true knowledge. Plato uses four different arguments to explain the question of history or reminiscence. We will only study one about mathematical objects as it appears in the fedon dialogue. Thanks to the senses we perceive that there are major, minor, equal, square, round, etc. But reflecting a bit we will see that these experiential perceptions are not identical to our notions or concepts. Nothing we can perceive through the senses can be perfectly square or round. Even so, we have in our interior the notions of the perfect square and the perfect circle.
