Originally Posted by
Perumthachan
can't say complete refutation. first it was that, all things not understood, could be placed on god's head. pythagoras in fact invented a religion of his own which placed god out of reason (something which buddha propagated too) then come the sophists who gave all importance to reason. they accepted the claims of their predecessors that everything should have come out of something and they developed it further that, the so-called something was one of the five basic elements of fire, water, air, earth and wind. then come the atomists who accepted their predecessors claim of the five elements but they developed if further claiming it was all about atoms. then comes socrates who accepted the predecessors' quest for finding reasons but developed it further claiming philosophy should not be about the everything out of something, but it should be about how people live their lives. he started off a new stream of thinking - what is good, what is knowledge, what is truth, what is real? then comes plato who accepted all of socrates' reasonings and questions but developed it further with his theory of forms and ideas which he claims are the only true things. it is nomore about man, but what is manness? or what is the essence of the being of man? he gave importance to ideas coming out of reasoning. he separated manness (idea/form) as something different from man (object/reality). his allegory of the cave is important in this aspect. for him man's perception is the basis of his knowledge. then comes aristotle who accepted plato's theory of ideas but developed it further to his own theory of matters. for aristotle, idea cannot be separated from the real object. aristotle refuted the idea of perception being basis for knowledge.
now, if you go through the theories of the pre-socratic thinker to socrates to post-socratic thinkers, its like we wonder, yes, aristotle is right but then that 'right' came after years of understanding something first, then thinking about it and finally adding your own thoughts to develop it. the funny thing is all new developments were by pupils who accepted most of what their teachers taught and then developed it.
ഒന്നുകിൽ ആശാന്റെ നെഞ്ചത് അല്ലെങ്കിൽ കളരിക്ക് പുറത്തു.
ഇവിടെയാണെങ്കി കളരിക്ക് പുറത്തുപോയിട്ട് ആശാന്റെ നെഞ്ചത്ത് കയറുന്നു.