What can I know?
Where does knowledge come from, how far does it reach, and what should we do when certainty is unavailable?
7 perspectives
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Plato
Reality has two levels: fleeting appearances and eternal Forms
René Descartes
Doubt everything that can be doubted; keep only the indubitable
Al-Ghazali
Sense-perception and reason both deceive; certainty needs another ground
David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
Immanuel Kant
The mind actively structures experience; we know things as they appear
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”