Review for Test on Metaphysics and Epistemology
Metaphysics
The Big Question of metaphysics
Examples of fields of interest associated with metaphysics
Foundation of Philosophy
Monist
Socratic Method
What Happens in Socratic Method of Inquiry
Purpose of Thought Experiments
Examples of Thought Experiments
Plato’s Theory of Forms
Where the Forms exist
Spiritual Realm
Physical Realm
Plato’s Beliefs about Art
Aristotle
Aristotle’s Golden Mean
The One and The Many
Gorgias
Why Optimistic Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle were a thing of the past in the
Hellenistic world
Pessimism
Stoicism
Epicureanism
Skepticism
Ionians
Italians
Pluralists
Sophists
Epistemology
Rationalism
Descartes
Descartes and dreaming
Cogito Argo Sum
Significance of the statement - I Think Therefore I Am
Empiricism
Idealism
George Berkeley
How Inception is a metaphor for Descartes dream argument
How Children’s Books can introduce the complex concepts of metaphysics and epistemology
to students
What Metaphysics Tells Us about Reality
What Epistemology Tells Us About Reality