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===Introduction to Platonic Metaphysics=== | ===Introduction to Platonic Metaphysics=== | ||
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====Rationality and the Project of Essential Definition==== | ====Rationality and the Project of Essential Definition==== | ||
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| + | :Through the project of giving essential defintions, Plato is led to focus on form as persistent reality. | ||
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Revision as of 17:09, 20 January 2009
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We'll use this page to post supplemental material to our class sessions. - Alfino
1/13/2009: Course Intro
- Course Goals
- Roll Call
- Schedule, Grading Schemes, Wiki, Journals, Study Questions
- Philosophy
Identifying the Philosophical
- Turn toward basic questions
- Meta-level cognition in general - theorizing
- In the Structure of Knowledge
Note to Class
Thanks for a good first class. Please go through your "to do" list from class and let me know if you have any difficulties.
Also, here's your first journal assignment: For Thursday: After reading the excerpt from the Apology, summarize in one or two paragraphs the main charges against Socrates and his defense. Select a detail or two that you find particularly interesting. Then make a brief (one paragraph) assessment of Socrates defense. End with one or two questions you still have after reading the passage. 1 - 1.5 pages, typed, double spaced.
1/15/2009
What is Real? (1st Exercise)
What is Philosophy?
- Philosophy is a discipline of inquiry directed toward a wide range of basic questions about the nature of the universe and our experience in it. It involves a turn toward "basic questions". It also involves meta-level cognition.
Logos, Mythos, and Theos
- locating philosophy in relation to Mythos and Theos
Other ways of identifying Philosophy
- in relation to science
- as speculative
- as dealing with matters of direct importance to living
- as dealing with matters of great uncertainty
Philosophical Methods
Go to Philosophical Methods
1/20/2009
Introduction to Platonic Metaphysics
Plato's answer to the question, "What is Real?"
- The real is what persists through all changes and manifestations.
Rationality and the Project of Essential Definition
- Through the project of giving essential defintions, Plato is led to focus on form as persistent reality.
Allegory of the Cave
- The Allegory of the Cave gives us an image of the implications of Plato's metaphysics for his view of human existence.
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