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Philosophy and Theology
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Philosophy
Graduate
09/04/2006

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To Agathon
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In Platonism, the highest good
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Allegory of the Cave
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Allegory used by plato to describe the human condition as it were and how to achieve enlightenment
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Allegory of the Divided Line
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To the left is epistemology and to the ontology. Three is also implicit ehtics and aesthetics. The totality of this allegory constitutes Plato's metaphysics.
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Allegory of the Sun
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represents enlightenment in playo's allegory of the cave
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Forms/Ideas
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timeless, perfect, unchanging, immaterial, eternal archetypes in platonism
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Teleology
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study of phenomena exhibiting order design, purpose, ends, goals, tendacies, aims, and direction and how these are achieved in a process of development
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Plato
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greek philosopher; socrates was his inspiration and foundation. Founded an Academy in athens for the study of pholosophy, mathematics, and logic. Wrote dialogues.
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Socrates
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Known thourgh platos writtings. His mission was to help people tend to their soles. He lived in poverty and austerity. He focused on the nature of human nature, the nature of language, the nature of true reality, and the nature of universal values
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Parmenides
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greek philosopher and founder of the eleatic school. follower of zenophanes and influenced plato's thought.
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Heraclitus
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"philosopher of change"; "dark philosopher"; greek philosopher
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Being/Becoming
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existing; eternal; / to change forms
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One and Many
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a necessary exsistance; abosolute; variety exsists in nature
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Helenism
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greek culture
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Epistemology
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origins; presuppositions; nature; knowledge
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Ontology
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study of the essential characteristics of being in itself "what is being in itself?"
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Metaphysics
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world view;
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Logos
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word;thought; reason
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mythos
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presents a nonscientific history of the thought of a people
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