METHODS OF PHILOSOPHIZING MODULE 2: READING 1 TO 4

The Allegory of the Cave, or _'s Cave, is an allegory presented by which Greek philosopher?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Rene Descrates

THE DIVIDED LINE

(a)  

Produces appearance or reality as it appears to us.

• Opinion

• Knowledge

• Belief

• Intellect

This includes one's commonsensical notion of morality which should not be the basis for real knowledge. This is what many of us would be familiar with-practical knowledge.

• Opinion

• Knowledge

• Belief

• Intellect

Two types of Knowledge

• Belief and Opinion

• Belief and Imagination

• Knowledge and Reasoning

• Intellect and Reason

Type of Perception where you use your five senses to perceive things

• Perception

• Internal Perception

• External Perception

• Abstraction

Stages in the Apprehension of Concepts for knowledge to be possible where in you combine two concepts and make a statement/proposition that is neither true or false.

• Abstraction

• Perception

• Internal Perception

• Judgement

He was a greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.

• Socrates

• Rene Descartes

• David Hume

• Thy Moudre

You could show the contradiction or absurdity of your opponent's argument by asking a series of insightful questions in a dialogue that would lead to this absurd or contradictory conclusion. What is this Method?

• Hermenic Method

• Analectic Method

• Socratic Method

• None of the above

Rene Descartes, in his book _, believed that knowledge can proceed or start from very few premises or starting points just like his model of mathematics.

• • Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)

• • Meditations on First Philosophy (1461)

• • Discourse on Method (1637)

• • Principles of Philosophy (1644)