Response to TA's question 1

My question is, what about inventors? The person who came up with the couch, wheel, table, iPod? Does and "inventor" as such even exist?


I don't think Plato would think any inventor truly came up the ideal for any object for example couches. Because on he wrote "no craftsman construct the idea itself, because that is impossible" then he goes a said "such a craftsman is a complete impossibility?". If I'm misinterpreting Plato thinks the idea of a couch is already in the world forms where he believes must ideas are discovered and use by a craftsman. Plato would argue that the idea of a couch is from the Gods whether the humans might thought of it for example he wrote "the gods and all the heavenly bodies and everything in Hades under the earth is his workmanship". I think he's trying to let us know that humans might thought of the idea, but it was giving by the gods who already thought of the idea before humans did.

I disagreed with Plato about "no craftsman constructs the idea itself, because that is impossible". I think  inventors come out with their idea by itself, because how in the world are you going to come out with ideas like couch, wheel, table, iPod. To me inventors construct theirs ideas by themselves I don't see another way that anybody can find or discover an idea to make anything like couches or any other object.

Philosophy Toolkit

The section on Intellectual Virtues: Seven habits of highly reasonable people was really interesting in the Toolkit because it can be apply to anything in philosophy. Philosophers use them in most of their work I think in some cases it can let them to find new questions and answers. It can be hard for non-philosophers to put into to practice, but would be nice if we can interpret in different ways and it would mean the same to everyone. I think is interesting how we can follow Intellectual Virtues in philosophy to formulate questions, discover new   answers, and ideas.

The seven habits of highly reasonable people is interesting how we can apply them to different things in life. i they are big in philosophy, but it would be great if we can start using them in like most things in life.