Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World. Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think.
Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? 3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4.
Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. Western Philosophy. Bananas and Monkeys - StumbleUpon. Original source unknown.
(But the story appears to have some basis in fact.) Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Now, put away the cold water. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Allegory of the Cave - StumbleUpon. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. From Great Dialogues of Plato (Warmington and Rouse, eds.) Here are some students’ illustrations of Plato’s Cave Go back to lecture on the Phaedo Go back to lecture on the “One Over Many” Argument Go to next lecture on Criticism of Forms Need a quick review of the Theory of Forms? Return to the PHIL 320 Home Page Copyright © 2006, S. El mito de la caverna de Platón. El libro VII de la República comienza con la exposición del conocido mito de la caverna, que utiliza Platón como explicación alegórica de la situación en la que se encuentra el hombre respecto al conocimiento, según la teoría explicada al final del libro VI.
I - Y a continuación -seguí-, compara con la siguiente escena el estado en que, con respecto a la educación o a la falta de ella, se halla nuestra naturaleza. - Ya lo veo-dijo. - Pues bien, ve ahora, a lo largo de esa paredilla, unos hombres que transportan toda clase de objetos, cuya altura sobrepasa la de la pared, y estatuas de hombres o animales hechas de piedra y de madera y de toda clase de materias; entre estos portadores habrá, como es natural, unos que vayan hablando y otros que estén callados. - ¡Qué extraña escena describes -dijo- y qué extraños prisioneros! - ¿Cómo--dijo-, si durante toda su vida han sido obligados a mantener inmóviles las cabezas? - ¿Y de los objetos transportados? - ¿Qué otra cosa van a ver? Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - StumbleUpon.
[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page.
I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. " "Imagination is more important than knowledge. " Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)