PHIL 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Consumerism, Vishvarupa, Platonic Love
6 Dec 2017
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Philosopher is defined is someone who can see ultimate reality. Ordinary person is the cave person staring at shadows. Stage one: common sense, accept way things present to senses. What is in the cave: shadows, change, senses. This is what people think is real. What is fully real is being, universals > particulars. We are slaves to our senses, take things as they come through appearance. The ordinary person"s view on reality is created by contingencies (history, culture) Philosophy can know things as they truly are. A sophist worries about having power in the cave . There are absolute moral and political standards. Philosopher in principle after self-discipline of years, can apprehend the form of the good- origin of all things. It is a sacrifice, anti-climax (selfless) for philosopher to come back to cave. Come to ordinary world, model onto divine archetypes. Politics is art of trying to bring timeless ideals.
