Plato's understanding of what the essence of knowledge.
Date Submitted: 09/09/2003 08:04:58
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 6 pages (1574 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 6 pages (1574 words)
PLATO AND NIETZSCHE When people are born, they do not know the difference between right and wrong. Plato is a philosopher who believes that things are inborn. It is to say that, when a human being is born his soul knows everything, but at the beginning, the mind is a tabular rasa (blank state). As he grows day by day, he recollects the knowledge from his soul. Before uniting with the body, this soul is …
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…something as correct) when he did not already know? It is impossible. Knowledge is true belief. Nietzsche believes that the people can trust their sensations. There is not such a thing as truth because there is no good and evil on earth. Truth is the desire to power.
REFERENCES 1.http://www.friesian.com/existent.htm 2.Rudiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
3.George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God, Synopsis, 2000.
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