philosophial ideas

topic: perception

Gorgia's main philosophial ideas were nothing exists, If anything does exist it is unknowable, if anything can be known it is incommunicable. He argues that only being exists, and becoming is not at all. Beings must have a beginning either from being or non-being. If itis from being, then there is no beginning. A beginning from non-being is implossible. If something comes from something, then there's no beginning, and something cant come from nothing. Either way, nothing exists of anything in existence being unknowable is "part and parcel". The object can only be percieved, but different perceptions will not agree with one another, and the truth about the object will remain unknown.

Socrates uses of critical reasoning, and through the vivid example of his of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all subsquent western philosopy. Destroying the illusion that we already comprehend the world perfectly and honestly accepting the fact of our own ignorance. Socrates belived that the vital steps toward our own acquistion of genuine knowledge, by discovering universal definitions of the key concepts governing human life. Socrates refuses the superfical notion of piety as doing whatever is pleasing to the gods. Efforts to define moralityby refference to any eternal authority, he argued, inevitably founder in a significant logical dilemma about the orign of the good. Socrates said that knowledge and virtue are so closely related that no human agent ever knowlingly does evil, we are invariably do what we believe to be best. Improper conduct, then, can only be a product of our ignorance rather than a sympton of weakness of will. The same view is also defended in the protagoras, along with the belief that all of the virtues must be cultivated together.

Gorgias has good philosophial ideas, but I would have to agree more with socrates. Gorgias perception is that all people will percive things differently. Socrates agrees with the same issue, but he believed that vital steps toward our genuine knowledge by discovering universal definitions of the key concepts governing human life.