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31/10/2009 Notes fo a history of Philosophy(2)Instead of debating alternative theories of nature, philosophers addressed the problem of human knowledge, asking whether it was possible to discover any universal truth.
How knowledge is acquired and how humans might order their behavior.
Protagoras: man is the measure of all things, of the things that are,that they are,and of the things that are not, that they are not.
The knowledge is relative to each person.
Gorgias: nothing exists; that if anything exists it is incomprehensible, and that even if it is comprehensible, it cannot be communicated.
Thrasymachus: injustice is to be preferred to the life of justice.
Socrates: Knowledge is virtue.
The soul as that within us in virtue of which we are pronounced wise or foolish, good or bad.
Our greatest concern should be the proper care of our souls when we understand the difference between fact and fancy, and thereby build our Thought upon a knowledge of what human life is really like .having attained such knowledge, those who have the proper care of their soul in mind will conduct their behavior in accordance with their knowledge of true moral values.
The surest way to attain reliable knowledge was through the practice of disciplined conversation, with this conversation acting as an intellectual midwife.
By progressively correcting incomplete or inaccurate notions, we could coax the truth out of anyone.
No unexamined idea is worth having any more than the unexamined life is worth living.
The variety of facts around us could yield clear and fixed concepts, so long as we employ the technique of analysis and difinition.
Behind the world of facts, then, Socrates believed there was an order in things that we could discover.
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