Title: Name the philosopher known for the idea/quote
1So, you think you know your philosophers?
- Name the philosopher known for the idea/quote
2Cogito ergo sum
- Rene Descartes
- What does the quote mean in English?
- I think, therefore I am.
3The first to say that knowledge is acquired via
the senses?
4To be is to be perceived.
- George Berkeley
- What is the quote in Latin?
- Esse est percipi.
5One cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
- What point about reality is he making?
- Everything is in a constant state of change.
Nothing ever is, it is always becoming.
6That which is, is. That which is not, is not.
- Parmenides
- What point about reality is he making?
- Change is impossible.
7This alone I know, that I know nothing.
- Socrates
- What is his MOST famous quote?
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
8Name the 3 British Empiricists
- John Locke
- George Berkeley
- David Hume
9This Moderate Rationalist believed some
knowledge is a priori
- Immanuel Kant
- What does a priori mean?
- The idea that knowledge is possible PRIOR to
experience. -
10A Modern Philosopher who believed in innate
ideas
11Air is the basis of all creation.
12All life originates from the sea.
13All things are perceived by God, the Ultimate
Perceiver
14This early Athenian claimed that the mind brings
order to the world of matter by organising
sensory information.
15She was an early Neo-Platonist from Alexandria
16Atoms are the basic elements of matter
17There are four intellectual idols to overcome.
18Universal forms reside within the particular
entities they embody
19Primary secondary qualities are not different
since they both come via sense experience
20Earth, fire, water and air are the basic elements
of all things.
21The first to believe in innate ideas.
- Plato
- Who was his teacher?
- Socrates
- Who was Platos famous student?
- Aristotle
22Ideas are not innate! They are attained by
experience.
23Impressions are lively vivacious, ideas are
faint echoes of impressions.
- David Hume
- What did Hume think about the idea of
causality? - It didnt exist we cant see causes. We only
see the before, then the after. - What is the result of extrapolating Humes
thinking? - There is no external reality. SKEPTICISM!
24It is not possible to prove the truth of any idea
or theory with certainty.
25Movement is impossible
- Zeno
- What are his famous paradoxes?
- Achilles and the tortoise.
- The arrow
26Numbers are the basic element of all things
27Objects have primary secondary qualities
28Rulers should be kings who think like philosophers
29Scientists work within an unquestioned set of
beliefs a paradigm that shapes their thinking.
30Senses tell us the way of seeming, reason gives
us the way of truth.
31Since the idea of God must come from God (Im not
capable) God must exist.
32So influential in philosophy, hes known as The
Philosopher.
33The mind is a tabula rasa a blank slate or
blank page.
- John Locke
- What is the name of his most famous work?
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
34Water is the basic substance of all matter.
35Wondered did I dream that I was a butterfly, or
am I a butterfly dreaming that Im me?
36 to be continued?