Exam 3: Plato the Divided Line and the Cave

What does Cavendish mean when she says that every part of nature has both sense and reason?

Kant argues that human reason "falls into confusion and contradictions," because the principles it employs transcends the limits of experience.

What does Kant mean when he says that "Our age is the age of criticism"?

According to Plato, reasoning and understanding belong to the ...

According to Arendt, experience of the eternal is different; it is a "kind of death, and the only thing that separates it from real death is that it is not final because no living creature can endure it for any length of time."

Berkeley tells us there is something which knows or perceives, and exercises diverse operations, as willing, imagining, remembering. "This perceiving, active being is what I call mind."

Heidegger asserts that the "first of all questions" (not the first question in the chronological sense) is:

Hawley calls the attempt to show that the scientific metaphysics is not involved in generating novel prediction, and thus that its appearance in a scientific theory does not give us reason to think it true, ...

Do you agree with Heidegger that the "first of all questions" (not the first question in the chronological sense) is "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?"

For Locke, the qualities of objects, such as colors, sounds, and tastes that do not exist in the objects themselves, but only as ideas in our minds of objects are called primary qualities.

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 doubtful."

Explain Arendt's meaning when she says that the experience of the "eternal" is a "kind of death, and the only thing that separates it from real death is that it is not final because no living creature can endure it for any length of time." Do you agree with Arendt?

Cavendish argues that since sense perception is more likely to be deluded, it cannot be the ground of reason.

According to Arendt, "Immortality means ..."

Locke concludes "that __________ is the first operation of all our intellectual faculties, and the inlet of all knowledge in our minds."

Berkeley says, "But, whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I find the ideas actually perceived by Sense have not a like dependence on my memory."

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

What is the Fourth Paralogism?

Plato writes, "Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power of knowing to the knower is what I would have you term the ...

Aristotle says, "A principle which everyone must have who understands anything that is, is not a hypothesis; and that which every one must know who knows anything. Such a principle is the most certain of all. It is this: That the same attribute cannot at the same time ______ and _________ to the same subject and in the same respect."