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Thinking About Thinking

An introduction to philosophy through arguments, questions and one very old cave.

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Lessons
3
Time
1 h
Pauses to think
9

About this course

Philosophy is not a list of famous opinions. It is a set of tools for testing ideas, including your own. You will learn what makes an argument valid, how Socratic questioning works, and why Plato thought most of us are watching shadows.

You will be able to

  • Tell valid from invalid arguments
  • Use Socratic questions to test a claim
  • Explain Plato's allegory of the cave

What is inside

  1. 1.Arguments

    Premises, conclusions and what 'follows' means.

  2. 2.Appearance and reality

    How do you know what you think you know?

    • The cave3 pauses12:14