Philosophy Greek Revision Week 2
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Guide towards a good definition of F
1) Capture all cases of F
2) Do not capture cases that are not F
3) Do not include anything superfluous
4) Do not appeal to F
Aporia
A state of puzzlement? Lack of knowledge? Lack of confidence? Awareness of lacking knowledge? What is Meno in aporia about?
Meno’s Paradox
1) It is not possible to inquire about what one knows
2) It is not possible to inquire about what one does not know
3) So, it is not possible to inquire
The Immortality of the Soul
Socrates says that if the soul is immortal, it learns all the information in the world, as it has all the time to learn everything.
“The soul…has seen both the things here and the ones in Hades”
“It can recollect about virtue and other things, since it knew them before.”
How does the soul ‘see’ things in the way Socrates puts it? Does it mean literal or metaphorical visible perception?