1. Allegory of the Cave and the T
In the 17th century, philosophers René Descartes and John Locke challenged the idea of knowledge and its origin. ... Locke asserts that innate ideas, if they do exist, must be universally agreed upon and known to the mind without any enlightenment or "activation....
This brings me to the major discussion of my paper; I interpret Plato's theory as a process of education, it's a journey to enlightenment. Plato said that the goal of the philosopher is to know the perfect forms and to instruct others in that knowledge. ... Now transformed into a Philosopher has left the cave completely, he will see real objects in the sunlight; the forms. ... So as an attribute to this and the insight of his theory, I deem that Plato worthy of his reputation as being one the most creative and influential philosophers of the western world. ...
This idea is the religious theory of knowledge, which was most popular before the enlightenment period. ... John Locke, a renowned English philosopher, rejected the religious theory, because he said that if knowledge comes from God and God loves all of his children equally then we should all have roughly the same amount of knowledge. ... Another prodigious philosopher is Rene Descartes, who objects the realist theory. ... Some philosophers say we can distinguish between reality and dreams because reality happens in sequence and dreams are disordered and skip around. ... This example causes ph...
We know more about the universe and our own physical world than the ancient philosophers could have imagined. We have gone through periods of enlightenment that has resulted in a society that prides itself on freedom and liberty. ...