PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reductio Ad Absurdum, Sophocles, Pseudoscience

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

Document Summary

Plato was trying to explain being as ideas. And ideal means a form that is perfect. True reality is completely different room the way people ordinarily think. This idea of the good is the most important thing anyone can good. If (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the idea of the good (cid:455)ou (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g. to attain knowledge of the good is the asse(cid:396)tio(cid:374) of plato(cid:859)s philosoph(cid:455). How can one be satisfied with opinion when there is knowledge to be fou(cid:374)d? (cid:862)opinions without knowledge are shameful and ugly things. (cid:863)(cid:894) aid (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:272)(cid:396)ates (cid:449)(cid:396)itte(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) plato(cid:895). Opi(cid:374)io(cid:374) is sha(cid:373)eful because it is not a passive thing. We should eithe(cid:396) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) o(cid:396) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) that (cid:449)e do(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)o(cid:449). Ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) opi(cid:374)io(cid:374) is (cid:374)o good fo(cid:396) anyone. If a few wise men know the truth how could they be expected to care about a democratic opinion? (cid:862)the u(cid:374)e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed life is (cid:374)ot (cid:449)o(cid:396)th li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) (socrates expressing his opinion about how you should not have an opinion. )