Amateur Philosophers' Club

So how do you know what you know? And how do you know you know what you know? Ya know?

So what do we know about knowing? And when we know, is what is known in what is known or in who knows or neither? 

Between man and beast, is there any difference that makes much of a difference? Or are we pretty much the same kind of thing?

In this episode we take a break from getting to know the professionals and get to know the amateurs a little better.

Aristotle brought the ideas of Plato back down to earth and there found solutions to the questions that had landed his forebears in opposing ideas. 

In the world of ideas, Plato's ideas made a world of difference to the world and ideas (though he was more interested in the latter then the former).

An excerpt from Meno, one of the Socratic Dialogues written by Plato. In this dialogue Socrates tries to get Meno to explain to him what virtue is. 

If there was one thing that Socrates knew to be true it was that he didn't know everything ... and if there's one philosopher worth knowing (and imitating) it's this humble seeker of truth.

Seeking the truth is overrated. Rather just persuade people to believe what you want them to believe ... Or so the Sophists thought.

So change is a pretty apparent reality, and a pretty mysterious one too. And if you think about it for long enough it makes you ask some pretty big questions like: When things change, what changes? And what stays the same? Is anything around us stable? Is everything around us stable? 

These are some of the questions that some of those early Greek thinkers asked too, and they came up with some pretty interesting answers.