History of Philosophy and Philosophers · 2018-09-06 · Thinkers from the Greek world (sixth and...
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY& PHILOSOPHERS
Presocratics-Aristotle
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Disclaimer
All of the graphics and some of the text have been reproduced from the works referenced without citation.
The graphics have been taken from Donald Palmer’s Looking at Philosophy.
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General Introduction
Ought not a minister to have,First a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound
judgment, and a capacity of reasoning….Is not some acquaintance with what has been termed the second
part of logic, (metaphysics), if not so necessary [as logic itself], yet highly expedient? Should not a minister be
acquainted with at least the general grounds of natural philosophy?
-John Wesley
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To be ignorant and simple now – not to be able to meet the enemies on their ground – would be to throw down our
weapons, and betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the
intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad
philosophy needs to be answered– C.S. Lewis
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The history of philosophy is philosophy-Gordon H. Clark
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What is Philosophy?Philein = To LoveSophia = WisdomPhilosopher = Lover of Wisdom
Philosophy is the attempt to think rationally and critically about life’s most important questions in order to obtain knowledge and wisdom about them. -J.P Moreland
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Philosophy deals with problems that require a speculative rather than experimental approach.
Conceptual analysis or logical scrutiny of general ideas (philosophy) vs. data gathering and experimentation (science)
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ScienceCan there be successful experiments that explain this event?
PhilosophyWhat is knowledge, truth, causality, value, explanation, science?
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Disciplines of PhilosophyOntology (Theory of Being)
Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge)
Axiology (Theory of Value)Ethics/Moral Philosophy (Theory of Right Action)
Aesthetics ( Theory of Beauty/Art)
Logic (Theory of correct inferenece)
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Why Philosophy? It aids in the task of apologetics and polemicsIt is an expression of the image of God in usIt permeates systematic theology adding clarityIt can facilitate the spiritual discipline of studyIt is essential for integration of other disciplines
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The Pre-Socratics
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The Pre-Socratic PhilosophersReality is One
ThalesAnaximanderAnaximenesPythagorasHeraclitusParmenidesZeno
Reality is ManyEmpedoclesAnaxagorasDemocritus
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IntroductionThinkers from the Greek world (sixth and fifth centuries BC)Attempted to create general theories of the cosmos (world)Mythos Logos
There must be a good explanation to the appearances of the world beyond the tales of how the god’s had created everything
Important for grasping the origins of Western philosophy and science
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Thales of Miletus (580 BC)
First successful prediction of a solar eclipse
First recorded instance of universalizing
(reducing multiplicity to unity)
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If there is change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change.
There must be a unity behind the apparent plurality of things
How did orderly multiplicity come to be?
What is it all made of?
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Could it be that all things are made of just one elemental stuff?
Men eat plants and animals
Must not the human body contain the same materials?
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Unity or oneness must exist
What is the nature of this unifying, unchanging substance that is disguised by the appearance of constant change?
Air, Fire, Water, or Earth?
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Thales decided that all things are
composed of water
“The first principle and basic
nature of all things is water”
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Anaximander (610-546 BC)
Student of ThalesAgreed that the plurality of kinds of things in the world must be reducible to one categoryNot satisfied with water as the single element of the universe
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The ultimate stuff behind the four elements could not be one of the elements:
Water is not fire, which is not air, and air is not earth
The unifying element he call the “Boundless” or “Unlimited”
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Anaximenes (545 BC)
How much better is an unspecified something or other than nothing at all?How could anyone know there was such a thing as the Boundless?The ultimate stuff must be an empirical substanceAir seemed better than water
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Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
Not far removed from twentieth century naturalism (Natural phenomena should be explained in terms of other natural phenomena)Corporeal Monism – the view that ultimatlyther is only one kind of stuff that makes up everything
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Pythagoras (572-500 BC)
The ultimate stuff is not some material element like water or fireAll things are numbers and a correct description of reality must be express in terms of mathematical formulasTotality of reality can be explained by mathematical laws
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Pythagoras was a numerologist interested in the mystical significance of numbers
Eg. Is there something to the fact that music is mathematical and harmonies are easy fractions?
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Heraclitus (525-475 BC)Lived in EphesusRejected water, air, and earth as elemental stuffFire is the single original elementFire gives insight into the appearance of stability (unity)- for the flames form is stable; and the fact of change- for in the flame, everything changes
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The order of the universe always has been, is now, and ever shall be an ever living fire
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Hebrews 12:29
for our "God is a consuming fire."
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Did Heraclitus choose fire because of his desire to select a suitable explanation for the problem of motion and change? (Clark pg 17)
“No man can step intothe same river twice”
(Clark pg 18)
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There is one thing that does not
change:
change itself (the law of change)
He called it “Logos”
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“You can’t go home again your childhood is lost. The friends of your
youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you.
Nothing is ever the same”
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Heraclitus wrote:
“Logos is always so”Logos is the “logic” which governs change and makes change rational rather than chaotic or arbitrary
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Key ConceptLogos (Word)
Means the theory, study, or rationalization of something
Biology, psychology, theology, etc.Any expression of thought, act of speaking, or setting forth an ideaDesignates a certain kind of thinking about the world that places things in the context of reason
Logical analysis
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Wisdom is to understand the intelligence (Logos) that steers all things
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“In the beginning was the Word (Logos),
and the Word (Logos) was with God,
and the Word (Logos) was God”
-John 1:1
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Parmenides (515-440 BC)
Successor to Heraclitus
Thales had said that fire & earth are really water. Heraclitus said earth & water are really fire.
Parmenides said: fire is not water
What is the underlying unity?
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Being
Fire is existentWater is existent
What is Being?
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Being is:Rational – only what can be thought can exist
“Nothing” cannot be thought w/o thinking of it as somethingThere is no “nothing” there is only being
Uncreated, Indestructible, Eternal, Indivisible(Clark pg 26-27)
Spherical MatterBeing is equally real in all directionsThere is no place where being is not
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Motion is impossible
Motion would involve being going from where
being is to where it is not. (But there is no such
place)
Empty space is impossible
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What about Multiplicity & Change?Unity excludes multiplicity
How can a simple One, generate plurality?
If Unity is basic, then motion, plurality, change and differences cannot possibly exist
If one starts with Unity, does not one end with unity and unity alone?
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Zeno (490 BC-?)
A disciple of Parmenideswrote a series of famous paradoxes “proving” that motion is impossibleIs motion really impossible?
Are all things One and thus are motion and
change simply illusions?
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One could never move from point A to BIn order to get to point B you must go half way, but before you can go halfway you must go halfway of the remaining halfway, but first you must go halfway of halfway. Thus, motion is impossible even if it were possible
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Conclusion derived from the mathematical notion of the infinite divisibility of all numbers, and indeed, of all matterDo we choose Mathematics or Sensory information?Information based on senses (empiricism) vs. Information based on pure reason (rationalism)
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The Pluralists
Sense experience tells us that we can get from A to B. The greeks who immediately followed Parmenides and Zeno decided to reject corporeal monism (reality is one).
Why?
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Because differences exist and they must be accounted for
Thus, ultimate reality is composed of a plurality of things rather than of only One kind of thing
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Empedocles (?-440 BC)
Everything is composed of the simplest part of the four elements or “roots”: Fire, Air, Earth, and WaterSimilar to nineteenth century chemistry
The world is to be explained in terms of a finite number of differences, i.e elements or atoms
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The elements, atoms, or roots were small editions of Parmenides’ Being:
Unchangeable and indivisibleTheir mixture with each other accounted for the multiplicity in the world.
How do these things come to mix?
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How can the Pluralist explain life? And motion?If the four roots cannot move of themselves, there must be some other reality to cause the motion for mixings and separations of the atomsHe called these forces Love and Hate
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LoveThe force of unity bringing together unrelated items to produce new creations
HateThe force of destruction, breaking down old unities into fragments (Clark pg 31-32)
Do these forces explain universal motion?
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Anaxagoras (500-428 BC)
Empedocles, too simplisticHow can the amazing variety of qualities in the world be derived from so few elements?
The world of appearances requires many bodies (elements) that move, mix, and separate.
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These elements are unchangeable
Four roots “infinite seeds”
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Every object in the world contains seeds of all elements
“In all things there is a portion of everything…For how could hair come from what is not hair? Or flesh from what is not flesh?
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The existence of inanimate particles of matter demands the existence of a principle of motionHow do these seeds move?
Not Love & Hate but,Mind or Nous
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The universal Mind is omniscient and omnipotentAll bodies are mixtures of elements, but the moving principle (Mind) is unmixed.
It exists alone by itself, for if it were not by itself its complete power over everything would be diminished
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Democritus (460-370 BC)Known as an “atomist”The world is composed of material bodies composed of atoms (a term meaning “indivisible”)Each atom is a little peace of Permenidean Being: uncreated, indestructible, eternal, indivisible
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Atoms- Solid indivisible bodies that have no qualities not even weight. (Clark pg 36-37)What about motion? How do these atoms move?
Motion has always existed
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Conclusion
Pre-Socratic philosophers:Made obvious the dichotomy between reason and sensesAttempted to explain reality without religion (mythos)Attempted to understand how mathematical numbers were related to the flux of realityAttempted to explain the problems of the One and the Many
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Did the Pre-Socratic Philosophers leave a legacy of confusion? Or clarity?
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The Sophists& Socrates
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IntroductionPre-Socratics
NatureUltimate principlesScientific Concerns
Sophists & Socrates
HumansMoral BehaviorEthical Concerns
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Is it possible to discover any universal truth?Is there a universal concept of goodness?Is morality social convention or natural?Is truth relative?
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Protagoras (490-422BC)Customs, truth, morality, everything
Not absolute/relative to human subjectivity
Primary AssumptionUniversal FluxKnowledge = Perception
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If changing perception = knowledge then…
“Man is the measure”
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Gorgias (483-375BC)Protagoras
Truth relative to spectator
GorgiasNo truth at all
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There is nothingIf there were anything, no one could know itIf anyone did know it, no one could communicate it
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Thrasymachus (late 5th Century BC)
“The sound conclusion is that whatis right is the same everywhere:the interest of the stronger party”
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All disputation about morality is empty, except in so far as it is reducible to a struggle for power
Might Makes Right
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Socrates (469-399 BC)Socratic Discourse
Two directionsInward- to discover the inner person, the soulOutward- to objective definitions
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“The unexamined lifeis not worth living”
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He asked specific questions:What is Piety? – EuthyphroWhat is Justice? – RepublicWhat is Virtue? – MenoWhat is Meaning? – SophistWhat is Love? - Symposium
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Socratice Dialogue Three DivisionsPose a questionFind flaws with answersAgree with student about not knowing
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Plato(427-347 BC)
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The CaveImagine prisoners chained in such a way that they face the back wall of a cave. There they have been for life and can see nothing of themselves or of each other: They see only shadows on the wall of the cave.
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These shadows are cast by a fire that burns on a ledge above and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners is a wall-lined path along which people walk carrying statues and other artifacts on their heads. The prisoners hear the echoes of voices and see the shadows of the artifacts, and they mistake these echoes and shadows for reality
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Imagine that one prisoner is unchained, turned around, and forced to look at the true source of the shadows. But the fire pains his eyes. He prefers the pleasant deception of the shadows.
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Steep and Rugged Ascent-(Education)First must look at the shadows of the trees because the sun is too bright and he is used to shadowsFinally he is able to see the sun- (Enlightenment)
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Simile of the Line
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Theory of FormsWhat are the Forms?
Forms are those changeless, eternal, and nonmaterial essences or patterns of which the actual visible objects we see are only poor copiesForms are the source of all reality
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The GoodThe Good is a superform, or the Form of all Forms.The whole of reality is founded upon the Good, which is reality’s source of being.All knowledge is knowledge of the Good.The sun represents the Good in the myth of the CaveGood God Sun Son
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The Form of the Good is:
“the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and lord of light in
this world, and the source of truth and reason in the other.”
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Other QuestionsWhat is the relation of Forms to things?What is the relation of Forms to each other?Where do the Forms exist?How do we know the Forms?
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Aristotle(384-322 BC)
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A Break from PlatoAristotle asked:
If Forms are essences of things, how can they exist separated from things?If they are the cause of things, how can they exist in a different world?
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“To say that they [Forms] are patterns and that other things share in them, is to use empty words and poetical metaphors.”
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Did Plato’s compromise really solve the problem of motion and change?Is it really comprehensible to explain “changing things” by saying that they are bad imitations of unchanging things?
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Aristotle thought not:He argued that a distinction must be drawn between form and matter, but that these two features of reality can be distinguished on in thought, not in fact.
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Matter and FormMatter = What is unique to an object
“Thisness”
Form = What something is“Whatness”
Matter + Form = Substance
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SubstanceEssences
Features of a substance essential to it
AccidentsFeatures of a substance not essential to it
ExampleSubstance = Human
Essence- RationalityAccident- Baldness
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PlatoReality composed of upper tier Eternal FormsLower tier matter (that unsuccessfully attempts to imitate the Forms)
AristotleReality composed of plurality of substances
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Does Aristotles pluralism solve the problem of motion and change?How does one form become another?Can one substance become another?
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Potentiality and ActualityAcorn Oak Tree
The acorns matter contains the potentiality of becoming an oak tree, which is the acorns actuality.
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Each individual substance is a self-contained teleological system.Everything is striving unconsciously toward its end- perfection or the Good
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The Process of ChangeThe Four Causes-
Cause = Explanation
1. Formal Cause-the form explains what a thing is.“What is it?”
e.g. Statue
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2. Material Cause-the matter out of which a thing is madeWhat is it made of?e.g. marble
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3. Efficient Cause-The actual force that brings about changeBy what is it made?e.g. sculptor
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4. Final Cause-The end or ultimate purpose for which a thing was madeFor what end is it made?e.g. in order to decorate
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Moral PhilosophyThe notion of goal or purpose is the overriding oneMeaningless MeaningfulCircular series ultimate goodWasted life happiness
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What is good?Good is performing the intended function
Good Hammer does what hammers are designed to doGood Carpenter fulfills function as a builder
Good doctor = Good person
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What is the good person?The good person is the person who is fulfilling his/her function as a human being.
What is human function?To engage in activity of the soul which is in accordance with virtue and which is in conformity with reason- happiness is the end
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Ends for the sake of something elsePleasure, wealth, honor
Self sufficient final endHappiness
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What is ultimate end?Happiness is the end that alone meets all the requirements for the ultimate end of human actionHappiness = Good (the fulfillment of our function)
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