Themes: Ever Timely, Ever Timeless
Theme: Ever Timely, Ever Timeless There are a lot of philosophical issues or questions that are mostly involved in philosophy, but not all of these issues are preserved, some of these ideas are now unknown, yet many are still used and the argument about it is still ongoing. As of today, people still have questions about a lot of things. Although a lot of different philosophers have given their insights about a certain topic. Through all the centuries, only a few of these issues are used as their main topic. Some people might be confused to the different perspectives of the philosophers, and yet some might be able to see the differences between them. Even if those great philosophers have passed away, their contributions to philosophy is used
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There are different sides of knowledge. If you have the knowledge, you would be able to distinguish the things that are right from the things that are wrong, there are some mistakes that people might misunderstood, they might think that knowledge is not important, yet it is a need of a person. Knowledge is a blessing that we need to develop so that in the future we will be able to use this knowledge to our daily lives. We should all be thankful that we have the ability to learn because knowledge is an important factor that we need to have as a human being. Each philosopher has different understanding of knowledge, hence, knowledge have different meanings. Plato (428/7 BCE) from Athens said that Human Knowledge “was grounded in social customs and perceptions of individual people”. Pseudo-Dionysius (500 BCE) also has a different concept of knowledge, for him there are two possible way to have knowledge to God, The Positive and The Negative. The positive way is where we see all the positive traits in all things, whereas the negative way is “that he did not have the attributes of finite creatures.” Aquinas concept of knowledge is the Knowledge by Analogy, the first type of relation is called “Univocal”. The second type was called “Equivocal”, and last but not the least is the “Analogical”. For Democritus “There are two forms of knowledge, the true born and the illegitimate.” The true born knowledge is when they can say what it is just by looking at it, their knowledge is the same for they have seen it, but it will become illegitimate, if they use their senses to identify the thing that is shown to them. Augustine said that when we sense objects, we derive some knowledge from the act of sensation, thus “Such sensory information is at the lowest level of knowing”, indeed that we could gain some knowledge when we are using our senses but Augustine said that sensory might give us the least amount of certainty
There are different sides of knowledge. If you have the knowledge, you would be able to distinguish the things that are right from the things that are wrong, there are some mistakes that people might misunderstood, they might think that knowledge is not important, yet it is a need of a person. Knowledge is a blessing that we need to develop so that in the future we will be able to use this knowledge to our daily lives. We should all be thankful that we have the ability to learn because knowledge is an important factor that we need to have as a human being. Each philosopher has different understanding of knowledge, hence, knowledge have different meanings. Plato (428/7 BCE) from Athens said that Human Knowledge “was grounded in social customs and perceptions of individual people”. Pseudo-Dionysius (500 BCE) also has a different concept of knowledge, for him there are two possible way to have knowledge to God, The Positive and The Negative. The positive way is where we see all the positive traits in all things, whereas the negative way is “that he did not have the attributes of finite creatures.” Aquinas concept of knowledge is the Knowledge by Analogy, the first type of relation is called “Univocal”. The second type was called “Equivocal”, and last but not the least is the “Analogical”. For Democritus “There are two forms of knowledge, the true born and the illegitimate.” The true born knowledge is when they can say what it is just by looking at it, their knowledge is the same for they have seen it, but it will become illegitimate, if they use their senses to identify the thing that is shown to them. Augustine said that when we sense objects, we derive some knowledge from the act of sensation, thus “Such sensory information is at the lowest level of knowing”, indeed that we could gain some knowledge when we are using our senses but Augustine said that sensory might give us the least amount of certainty