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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Knowledge
Rationalism

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1

The are those who hold that our fundamental knowledge of reality is grounded in reason.
2

Inborn ideas that are in the mind even before experience are called ideas.
3

In a Platonic dialologue entitled the , Socrates asks a young boy a series of geometrical questions in order to awaken the mathematical knowledge within the boy.
4

According to Plato, particulars are perpetually changing, but Forms/Ideas, which in your text are called , are the unchanging foundations of reality.
5

Descartes believed that in order to move from knowledge of his own mind to knowledge of physical objects he first had to demonstrate the existence of .








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