Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

According to Plato, the areas below the divided line pertain to our sensations of the visible physical world, which are subject to error and doubt.

Describe the Conceptual World in Plato's divided line.

For Leibniz, "It follows that the natural changes of the Monads come from an ..."

Kant relates in his discussion of the Fourth Paralogism, "All outer appearances are of such a nature that their existence is not immediately perceived, and that we can only infer them as the cause of given perceptions. Therefore, the existence of all objects of the outer senses is ..."

Do you agree with Shepherd when she argues that the mind is conscious of the interruptions of its sensations; therefore, the ultimate causes which exist ready and capable to renew them, must be uninterrupted causes? Explain your answer.

Cavendish warns us that the dangers in the process of human reason can be remedied by strict deduction from first principles.

Explain what Plato means by belief and imagination.

Hume argues that knowledge of metaphysical principles is possible.

According to Cavendish, there are some objects which are not perceptible by sense perception, yet they are subject to our normative perception.

According to Arendt, by being active humans can leave traces behind and attain a kind of immortality of their own.

Cavendish claims that since figure, motion, and matter are but one thing, and that no particular motion is or can be lost in nature, nor created anew, therefore motion is material.

Describe in detail what the areas below the divided line contain.

According to MacDonald, the statement, "There are no things but only processes" is as _____________ a statement as any made by Descartes or Locke. There is no possible means of determining empirically that a cake is not a thing but a process.

Berkeley argues that primary qualities such as extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind.

According to Plato, belief and imagination belong to the Conceptual World.

Describe Kant's criticism of Locke.

Heidegger says that if we properly pursue the first question in its sense as a question, we must avoid emphasizing any ...

Kant tell us that we must "undertake the most laborious of all tasks-that of self-examination, and to establish a tribunal, which may secure it in its well-grounded claims, while it pronounces against all baseless assumptions and pretensions, not in an arbitrary manner, but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws. This tribunal is nothing less than the critical investigation of pure reason."

For Kant, "the inference from a given effect to a determinate cause is always uncertain, since the effect may be due to ..."

For Aristotle, the end of practical knowledge is ...