What do we really know? A lot of the things you believed when you were young turned out to be wrong. People you trusted were sometimes mistaken. If you think you can trust your teachers, consider what they were teaching in school a hundred years ago. Why should we think that our century is any different? It would be nice if someone else could help us, but if you haven't already figured out what's true, how do you know who to ask? So we are on our own and have to start by asking ourselves the question, What do we really know? -- PaulKjellberg
What does ReneDescartes think we know? [When you encounter words you don't know, nominate them for the PhilosophyGlossary.]
What does JohnLocke think we can know?
What does DavidHume think we can know?
What does ImmanuelKant think we can know?
What do you think we can really know?
Our class previously determined that:
There are truths which seemed to be self evident, such as Math and particular fields of Science, but that a majority of our knowledge stems from experience.
We also came to the conclusion that we know things through thought and through a comparison of experience.
We have not affirmed that Truth exists.
We have claimed that if we can find a nonroutinized method of achieving the same end as previous generations that we shall do it.
We are not certain whether we can know life in the now or if life is but a continual string of brief time spans forever flowing out of our grasp.
We have also concluded that there is a possible relation between tradition and actual Truth which prevents us from determining real emotion/experience from engrained emotion/experience.
This was all theorized before we read Descartes, Locke or even started Hume. Have any of us changed our ideas or do we all still feel the same now as we did before?