REL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vaishnavism, Synoptic Gospels, Wiler
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Vocabulary lists (please note that there is not a vocabulary list for every lecture) (note the additional vocabulary handout lists for the tolkien lor material) Note tolkien, bassham, lor & philosophy vocabulary at the end of this list) Epistemology: plato, aristotle: epistemology the study/theory of knowledge o. World of forms, world of the cave (empirical world). Sensory on bottom, forms on top (your mind) Realist (the real world is the world of the forms) You already have the stuff you need to know and you"re learning from memory. Argued that it is the immortality of the soul that allows us to have knowledge of the forms. The highest part of human nature, the soul, is eternal and unchanging. Believed there were 2 parts to the human self: 1) body 2) soul. 3 parts to the soul: 1) reason (head), 2) emotion/virtues (chest), 3) appetites (genitals: aristotle.
