Humanity Educating Philosophy :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Humanity Educating PhilosophyABSTRACT In what follows, I decoct on the partiality and f bothibility of each of us as individuals, and seek what that meaning for us as epistemic agents. When we examine the tradition of Western European thought, we n unitary that most epistemological theories assume individuals pot admit the answer, and ar able-bodied to critique what is passed down to otherwises as socially constructed friendship. Many control made the argument that while humanity can be deceived, ace individual can hold out, and therefore get word the others about their deceptions and false beliefs. I argue that because we are infix and embodied social beings who do not have transcendental, objective, Gods eye views of the manhood in which we live, we need each other to help us be potential knowers able to make knowledge claims. Others help us twist aware of our own situatedness and help us develop enlarged views. kinda than thinking that individual philosophers, cre dentialed experts in their subject field of study, know more and therefore have knowledge they can initiate humanity, I argue that all of us, as members of humanity, have much that we can teach each other. My position is that it is only with the help of others that we are able to know anything. IntroductionThe theme of this conference is Paideia Philosophy Educating Humanity. What I solicit as my topic is What humanity can teach philosophy. In particular, I focus on the partiality and fallibility of each of us as individuals, and explore what that means for us, as epistemic agents. I argue that because we are embedded and embodied social beings who do not have transcendental, objective, Gods eye views of the world in which we live, we need each other to help us be potential knowers able to make knowledge claims. Others help us become aware of our own situatedness and help us develop enlarged views. Rather than thinking individual philosophers, with credentials as experts in thei r field of study, know more and therefore have knowledge they can teach humanity, I argue that all of us, as members of humanity, have much we can teach each other. My position is that it is only with the help of others that we are able to know anything.Ever since Plato made the argument that each one of us has all knowledge in our souls, that each of us already knows all the true (the Forms), but that when our soul inhabited a body it forgot and so it moldiness spend a lifetime remembering what it already knows, (1) he batch the tone for the Western European world to consider how it is that each one of us knows truth.