PHIL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Epicurus, Thesis Statement
8 Dec 2017
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Opinion and knowing are different faculties that relate to different realm (different objects). We want to know the difference to understand what is special about the philosopher. Compared these to sight and hearing (both of these give you access to different things) Knowing the form of definition means: knowing why a particular thing is an x and not a y (not just being able to identify the example) Knowing in what ways a particular thing is deficient. When we argue about if something is a beautiful painting, it is not the perfect example of beauty. Forms help us deal with disagreements in the world. At each stage, the prisoner takes what he sees to be real (shadow, puppet, etc). When he ascends, he is blinded, perplexed, can"t understand the reality of what he now sees (515c-d) (takes time to understand the new realit) At each stage, the prisoner understands why the previous stage looked the way it did.
