Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Public Knowledge, Episteme, Socratic Questioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

Document Summary

Lecture nine: plato: anamnesis: epistemology: some general points. How certain are they: given that all experience is private (remember sarah and the gos! ), how do we achieve public knowledge: does the world out there resemble my impressions of it, plato and anamnesis, historical matters, the great trio: socrates (469- 399 bce), plato (429-347 bce), aristotle (384-322. Socrates: barefoot in athens (walked around athens barefoot, questioner: ask questions to his students, conversations; did not write anything, tried for (charged) importing new gods and corrupting the youth ; executed in 399 bce. Plato: began by writing down the remembered conversations of. Socrates (for of plato"s writing was dialogue: fine greek stylist, founded a school called the academy (hence academic, theory of forms, socratic question: in plato"s dialogue the main speaker is (almost) always socrates. Ideas is another term for forms : epistemological hierarchy: the twice-divide line.