The popularization of common philosophy

Greener Journal of Philosophy and Public Affairs

Vol. 2(1), pp. 119-120, 2021

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The popularization of common philosophy - 60

Zhou Mi

Suqian Economic and Trade Vocational School

ABSTRACT
This paper introduces the field of philosophy, western philosophy and Chinese philosophy of some common sense to popularize common sense, for popularizing the basic knowledge of philosophy, can play a role in the introduction, the basic coverage of the field of philosophy of some basic knowledge.
ARTICLE INFO
*Article No.:* 06082100060	*Accepted:* 01/07/2021 *Published:* 27/08/2021	Corresponding Author Zhou Mi* *E-mail:* 1024317354@ qq.com	*Keywords:* philosophy; popularization; common Sense.

Briefly describe Plato's Two Worlds Theory.

Ancient Greek philosopher Plato established his own philosophy, namely "Ideology", which is known as the first huge philosophical system in the history of western philosophy. The core concept of Platonic philosophy is the idea, and its foundation is the division between the sensible world and the idea world.

The Idea means "the class represented by a particular property". One kind of thing has an idea, feeling that things are many and ideas are one. Individual things are always in the process of being born and dying; they are individual, relative, and accidental; but the Idea is eternal; they are universal, absolute, and necessary. The individual things are the objects of feeling, and their class, the Idea, is the object of knowledge. Plato makes a distinction between two worlds: the world of sensations and the world of ideas. The world of things is the sensible object; the world of ideas is the knowable object.

In order to solve the problem of understanding the idea, Plato put forward the theory of recollection and the theory of turning the soul. Our soul was originally high in the sky of the idea world, and later because of the body of the interference and pollution of forgetting everything. So, learning is remembering. What the soul turn says is that the human soul has four different functions, from the lowest to the highest: guessing, believing, reasoning, and understanding. Our conception of the idea is the result of the turn of the four functions of the soul.

Since Plato sets the knowable world in direct opposition to the sensible world, neither the theory of recollection nor the theory of soul turning can solve the problem of knowledge. Plato's Ideology is the first systematic idealism system in the history of western philosophy.

Briefly reflect on Plato's theory of ideas.

Plato's theory of idea sets the world of idea against the world of perception, so it is difficult to solve the problem of understanding the idea. So Plato made a systematic critique of his theory of ideas.

The first is about the universality of the idea. Every kind of thing is supposed to have an idea of the same name as the basis for its existence, but Plato is not sure whether there is an idea in natural things. This would deny the theoretical premise that everything has an idea.

Second, there is a problem with the classification of ideas. There are only two ways in which things can divide the idea of the same name, either as a whole or as a part. If the whole of an idea is divided by many things of the same name, that will cause the idea to split from itself. If something is part of the idea, it destroys the integrity of the idea.

Thirdly, the question about the idea being imitated. The idea of imitating things means that they are made to resemble ideas. But if the individual is like the idea, the idea is like the individual. And so on, there will always be new ideas and there will be no end.

Fourth, the question of the relationship between ideas, God and us. If neither the theory of division nor the theory of imitation holds, the connection between the world of ideas and the world of things will be severed, and two unacceptable and unacceptable conclusions will follow. First, the idea is not known to us. Second, God is not our master and does not know about human affairs.

For Plato, to abandon idealism for all its contradictions would be to destroy knowledge. Therefore, he shifted the focus of his thinking from the relationship between ideas and things to the relationship between ideas and ideas.