homework phil

EPISTEMOLOGY -- Is it possible for humans to know anything objectively???? 

I have long  loved this quote about death from "The Apology":

"For  death is either only to cease from sensations altogether as in a dreamless sleep, and that is no loss; or else it is a passing to another place where all the dead are - the heroes, the poets, the wise men of old. How priceless were it to hold converse with them and question them!"

Why, then, fear death???

Our loves (in "The Symposium") and our death... about as subjective as subjects as there can be; I mean: what and who we love, and our own death??!! Rather personal, and subjective.

But both love and death are... subjects. Things.

And so, in the time-honored method of Socrates ("What is Truth?" "What is Beauty?" What is Love?")...

 

            Can we ever know or experience anything objectively?

 

Requirements:

· MLA format,

· Size-12 Times New Roman,

· Double-space.

· Answer using chunk style (claim/support/commentary - 1st week).

· Between 1000 and 2500 words

· Cut and paste into Answer area

You must use at least: 1) at least two quotes from primary sources, and 2) should have at least two quotes from at least an additional source (secondary sources)