Philosophical Jeopardy
The rules are simple. One person provides a factual answer to a question related to philosophy and another person replies with the correct question. Use of Google (or any search engine) is cheating (don't be a cheater).
I'll start with an easy one. This philosopher made a distinction between relation of ideas and matters of fact.
I'll start with an easy one. This philosopher made a distinction between relation of ideas and matters of fact.
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What is rationalism?
That's a matter of opinion.
Who is Descartes? Bold is mine.
Highly doubtful. Off the top of my head, I have found Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and what I've read of Hegel & Heidegger to be much superior to Descartes in insightfulness & truth.
A Philosopher of many firsts; several of which include first western Philosopher, first scientific philosopher, and first to receive an attribution of a mathematical discovery.
Why?
Common man, be serious!
What does ability to do math have to do with philosophy again?
The better question is what has the method of doubt allowed us to do in philosophy that you consider to be of such importance? Certainly Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Schopenhauer - all of them did very well without the method of doubt. As did Plato, and Aristotle. What is Descartes' advance even over Plato and Aristotle who came before him?
Did our existence need proof? :meh:
First we must understand what we even mean by considering whether an evil demon is deceiving us. I do not see any possibility of absolute deception, along the lines argued for by Spinoza, not Descartes. Namely, even in decieving someone you must use things which are real. Suppose I create the image of a unicorn before you. That image is created of things which are real - whiteness, extension, etc.
Cogito Ergo Sum.
Man You really do like your Descartes.
Okay well then here comes one:
In the competing academia of Rationalism and Empiricism this Philosopher created a means of bridging the two beliefs and in the process displayed superiority over all rationalists and Empiricists.
Cough' by your answer you just said that Kant is better than Descartes thus contradicting your argument earlier cough'
Aquaman! AKA the most underappreciated Superhero.
What is Frege?
(No Googling!)
Baudrillard!
Which philosopher-come-madman made this impassioned defence of the full extent of natural law:
[quote=???]Might one so regard Nature's gentlest unions, the ones she most insistently
prescribes to us and counsels most warmly? Eugénie, a moment of reason: how, after the vast afflictions our planet sometime knew, how was the human species otherwise able to perpetuate itself, if not through incest? Of which we find, do we not, the example and the proof itself in the books Christianity respects most highly. By what other means could Adam's family and that of Noah have been preserved? Sift, examine universal custom: everywhere you will detect incest authorized, considered a wise law and proper to cement familial ties. If, in a word, love is born of resemblance, where may it be more perfect than between brother and sister, between father and daughter? An ill-founded policy, one produced by the fear lest certain families become too powerful, bans incest from our midst; but let us not abuse ourselves to the point of mistaking for natural law what is dictated to us only by interest or ambition; let us delve into our hearts: 'tis always there I send our pedantic moralists; let us but question this sacred organ and we will notice that nothing is more exquisite than carnal connection within the family; let us cease to be blind with what concerns a brother's feelings for his sister, a father's for his daughter: in vain does one or the other disguise them behind a mask of legitimate tenderness: the most violent love is the unique sentiment ablaze in them, the only one Nature has deposited in their hearts. Hence, let us double, triple these delicious incests, fearlessly multiply them, and let us believe that the more straitly the object of our desires does belong to us, the greater charm shall there be in enjoying it.[/quote]
Correct. :up:
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He declared that human life is a never-ending suffering.
Not sure if that answer is for my question, though.
Also, if I give another hint, that would make it too easy. This philosopher is famous for theory on "Will".
What is oral, anal, phalic, latent, and genital?
@Caldwell
What is schopenhaur? (unsure if spelling is correct)
A 20th century jewish philosopher who distinguished between two ways of relating to an object - 'I it' vs 'I thou'.
Close, more hints: his first name begins with M and is a lesser known existentialist.
I never heard of him before.
I'll let someone else answer.
Who is Martin Buber?
@Baden
That's correct!
What's falsificationism?
Scholarch during the middle period of the Academy. Ariston described him as "Plato the head of him, Pyrrho the tail, in the midst Diodorus".
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