Philosophy Midterm

Explain who the prisoners in Plato's cave and what the shadow on the wall represent

Children dragged out of the cave were used as a metaphor because they weren't supposed to see inanimate objects.At first, only looks at shadows & reflections
Eventually, looks at the sun itself, recognizes the sun as the source of seasons, shadows/ reflectors’
the physical world

Explain what Russel means when he says studying Philosophy makes you "Children of the universe "

Russell coined the phrase "children of the universe" to describe people who do not engage in dogmatic thinking or study. Philosophy is the foundation of knowledge, and children are more open to learning new things in order to gain knowledge. Russel also believes that philosophy benefits those who study it directly, which eliminates the need for dogmatic beliefs.

Explain three key characteristics of Freie's banking method?

Knowledge is a gift from one who knows to one who knows nothing
Wants people to be robots
Regards humans as manageable and adaptable

List three commonly accepted requirement for propostional knowledge and give examples

1) You have a belief
2) Your belief is true
3) Your justified in holding that belief
An example of propostional knowledge is that i can say 4x4 = 16. that can be seen as true by doing it on a calulator or by hand.

Define Delora's Power, place and Personality

Power:Spirtual life that inhabits compose the universe
Place: relationship of all things to each other specfic to a land
Personality: Power +Place = Perosnality --- Trait charcteristics

Explain why Delora says that native American ways of knowing there are no anomalties

Native Ameircans have no anomalties because there is no seperation between science. Native American knowlege is based upon scientific spirtuality. For example Sencas a native ameircan tribe will belive that they can grow corn,squash& beans because they have compartible spirts. Western scientist answer is these three plants make a nitogren cycle

Define La Faculidad, Including who Anazaladua argues is more likely to develop this faculty and why?

La Faculidad : Capcity to see below surface phenomena into deeper realities. acute, awarness that communicate in images & symbols
She argues that miniorty people are more likely to develop a 6th sense and this being known as a survial tatic

Explain Bystander reality

There is a subject to object but does not affect it
(Has a right and wrong)
For example, I can see the water bottle and not affect it. The water is the object I am the subject. If I hit the water bottle I am now affecting it.

Explain what Zukav means when he says wave-like charcteristics and particle like chracterstics are properties of our interaction with light

They are light-interaction properties. Light has no properties apart from us; light does not exist. We can't look at light without changing what we see. Light can exist as both a particle and a wave, but not both at the same time.

Explain the "false dichotomy" that Strieber argues is often employed in relation to paranormal/supernatural phenomena

False Dichotomy: A logical error in which only two options are considered. For example, science may claim that there were to be alien explorers here, or they may all be in the mind (Halincation). Striber contends that this approach is inaccurate because it is not entirely mental. And that it may be a form of reality, but not the physical reality to which we are accustomed.

Explain what Steriber means by the Super natural

Phenomena that are true in some way but have eluded explanation. We are part of nature, but we follow different rules.
He sees them as two separate ideas of what is in our natural world and believes that it is part of our natural world and not separate from it.