What is the difference between rationalism and empiricism? how do Decartes' and Berkeley's theories of knowledge reflect the rationalist approach and empiricist approach? How does each of them try to answer the argument from illusion?

What is the difference between rationalism and empiricism? how do Decartes' and Berkeley's theories of knowledge reflect the rationalist approach and empiricist approach? How do each of them try to answer the argument from illusion?

The Republic

Hi: (a) How does the character Socrates defeat Cephalus' and Polemarchus' accounts of justice? (b)Why does Plato bother to consider these views?

Plato's Republic

Hello: There is a clear stylistic difference between Book 1 and the rest of the Republic....what does this say about Plato's views about the effectiveness of the Socratic cross-examination?

Republic

What is Thrasymachus' account of (a) what justice is and (b) what injustice is?

Republic

How does Glaucon's challenge relate to the question of whether justice is good in itself, good in its consequences, or both?