Philosophy: Plato - Sartre
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SamLagasse on November 9, 2011
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Mazza's Philosophy Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plato: Chapter One | (427 - 347 B.C.) raised in household committed to tradition of public service and democracy; lived through period of moral degeneration and political turmoil; many youthful disappointments with politics; death of Socrates shattered faith in politics and in democracy |
| Plato: Nature of Man | man is composed of three basic elements: reason, spirit, and appetite; how each individual develops each element determines his character; proper development of the elements leads one to be just and morally virtuous |
| Plato: Nature of Existence | believed in the doctrine of Teleology; maintains that everything has a purpose, including men; man's purpose is to become virtuous through the pursuit of ethical ideals: justice, temperance, and courage |
| Plato: Epistemology | sense experience is faulty and transient; our senses often deceive us; true knowledge cannot be obtained from the natural world; material substance is less real than the idea (form); the reality of the ideal is eternal, immutable, and perfect; one achieves knowledge through dialectic - critical examination of ideas, pushing each to a logical conclusion in order to find the truth |
| Plato: Ethics and Morality | No man knowingly does evil, but when overcome by pleasure, evil occurs; if man knew and act was wrong, then he would not perform it; knowledge of the evil of acts restrains us |
| Plato: Summum Bonnum | Knowledge is the greatest good. |
| Plato: Good Life | The good life is achieved through the examination of the perfect, immutable, and eternal world of forms, which helps us to attain wisdom |
| Aristotle: Chapter One | (384 - 322 B.C.) Father was a doctor & the personal physician of King Amyntas II of Macedonias; studied at Plato's Academy; unhappy with the acadmemy, he left with a group of students to continue his studies; founded the Lyceum; taught, wrote, and researched; developed one of the greatest libraries on the ancient world; left Athens in the the wake of anti-Macedonian sentiment, which may have threatened his security; considered himself a Platonist, but developed new and opposing directions of his own; worked out interpretations of Plato that he felt were more in keeping with reality; wrote on virtually every subject known to man; knew all there was to know at his time in history |
| Aristotle: Nature of Man | Reason is the obvious essence of man's nature; man is the rational animal; reason is the one things that distinguished man from all other living things |
| Aristotle: Nature of Existence | change is the manifestation of a thing moving toward its essence; "entelechy" --> final purpose; Nature makes nothing in vain, so everything is designed to reach its natural end; the goal of every things is to achieve the end from which it was made, to move from its potential to its actual; everything seeks to fulfill the essence of its being, to become what the combination of form and matter was meant to be. |
| Aristotle: Epistemology | it is not enough or man's intellect to gain philosophical wisdom without the ability to translate that wisdom into human action; we must pursue truth to gain philosophical wisdom, but we must also have practical wisdom, which is wise conduct |
| Aristotle: Ethics and Morality | Moral virtue is developing the habit or predisposition to do good. The person who can control those desires which could lead him into immoral choices is morally good.; since we all have desires and passions, these are not essentially evil; the just man acts in accordance with all virtues; one must choose the "Golden Mean", the virtue itself, not its excess or deficit. |
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