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Tamar Tskhakaia History of Ancient Philosophy Dr. Jamey Findling December 5, 2016 Take Home Final Questions (answer two): 1. Ever since the first Pre-Socratics, philosophers have pondered the fundamental nature of reality. What is the universe ultimately made of? What is most real? Is it something material? Something immaterial? Something ideal? Does reality at its most basic level undergo change and motion? Or is it fixed and eternal? Discuss the views of 3-4 of the figures covered in this course as they relate to questions like these, being sure to include Plato as one of your figures. Many pre-Socratic philosophers have presented with ideas and concepts in which they present one single principle as the cause behind all the things. Here, …show more content…

For this reason, he had many followers during and after his life. One of these followers was Plato, he believed that everything we see is part of the forms. These forms are things that do not change and they are the actual reality behind everything. For Plato, everything that is a material in the world will die that is why the true reality is the reality of the forms because the forms do not die and they are not materials. Plato also presented the theory of recollection, this theory talks about how knowledge is transferred from something that existed before, this knowledge is passed from a higher life in a different world. Also, this theory says that the soul and body are separated from each other in the moment of …show more content…

Since I came to the United States from Georgia, so many things have changed and the sciences explained so many things that we did not know in this short time that I know myself as a person. Personally, I never expected for sciences so answer so many questions, but I believe that they will not be able to explain why we exist, or why our reality is this one, or what is the nature of our existence. Even though there are many and many philosophical theories and scientific theories, I do not believe they will be able to explain in an adequate way how we ended up here. In my point of view, scientific method and philosophical thinking only tend to advance and evolve, but I also believe that a point that they will eventually get that they will not be able to answer the question. I believe this point and question is what is the true nature of reality. This question will be limit that science and philosophers will

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