Philosophy Exam #2

Dualism; form + matter

• Epistemology

• Ontology

A being responsible for the creation of the universe; controller of the material world

• Demiurge

• Zeus

• God

• Logos

Reality is transcendent (Plato; Ontology)

• Materialist

• Idealist

• Dualist

We used to live 'with' the ideas/forms, occasionally we can recall them (Déj






à Vu)

• Recollection

• Dialectic

• Hinduism

• Past life

sustained, 'refining' conversation with friends (epistemology)

• Dialectic

• Desire

• Fellowship

• Reflection

Why are we so quickly dissatisfied, even when we obtain what we want? - We want the idea, so nothing in this domain is ultimately satisfactory (epistimology)

• Recollection

• Desire

• Dialectic

• Aesthetics

Thesis x Antithesis = Synthesis

• Recollection

• Dissatisfaction

• Dialectic

• Ontology

Plato's receptacle is the thing in which all beings become; everything is created in the cosmos

• True

• False

(The Good) Intelligible World: objects

• The Good (forms); mathematical objects

• Knowledge; thinking

• Things; images

• Belief; imagining

(The Good) Intelligible world; modes of thought

• The good (forms); mathematical objects

• Knowledge; thinking

• things; images

• belief; imagining