Week 3
Which of these best captures how we can understand what true beauty is? How do we appreciate it?
contemplation of the idea of beauty itself
According to Epicurus, which of these is a desire worth pursuing?
enjoyment of simple pleasures
According to the correspondence theory of truth, an idea is true when...
it matches something that exists
Which of these best describes the metaphysical view of Epicurus?
materialism - only the physical world exists.
According to Epicurus, the good life is based in....
pleasure
Plato argued that there are three parts of the soul. Which of these is did he consider to be the most important?
rational
In Plato's cave, the world inside the cave represents
the physical world
Plato argued that reality has two parts; there is the world of the forms, and then the physical world. Which of these realms did Plato think was more important for philosophers?
the realm of the forms
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the world outside the cave represents...
the true world of the forms.