PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Coq, Uninvited Guest, Eryximachus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1A03
• Professor: Barry Allen

Document Summary

Argument for survival: all things come into being from their opposite (cid:862)heat (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) (cid:272)old, soft (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) hard(cid:863), (cid:862)just as life (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) death. (cid:863) so the living come from the dead. To have come from the dead a soul must exist despite being dead. (the danger of rationalism: (a) our understanding of perfection is independent of sense experience. A priori knowledge: independent of experience (cid:894)tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:374)o(cid:449) so(cid:373)e of (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) is this a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t need a body to know this). A posterior knowledge: depends on experience. (b) to have knowledge independently of experience, the soul must have been alive prior to (cid:271)odil(cid:455) life. But (cid:449)ill it sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)e the (cid:271)od(cid:455)"s death? (c) yes, because a soul that exists before birth must come from something dead. So a soul is a soul regardless of association with a living body.