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What is Real and What is Reality

1. How do you understand the word real?
2. What is real for you personally?
3. How do you understand the word reality.
4. What is reality for you?
5. What do you make of reality TV
6. Or what do you make of virtual reality
7. So far who do you agree with the most, the rationalist (mind,theory, abstraction) or the Empiricists (5 senses, experiences,testability) why?
8. Do you agree with Heraclitus that everything in thephysical/tangible world changes? Why or why not?
9. How do you understand Heraclitus saying: “No person can step inthe same river twice because neither the person nor the river arethe same.”
10. Fire is a metaphor for Heraclitus in order to communicate theintelligent, rational logos that is the inner eternal form of theever-changing cosmos. Although the fire is ever changing, like thephysical world, there is nevertheless a structuring pattern andrhythm that ensures the continuity and intelligibility of theworld. Do you agree or disagree with Heraclitus
11. Real for Parmenides is permanent, unchanging, perfectand complete. Do you agree or disagree?
12. For Parmenides, real is being is a single coherentreality. It is the being of the visible cosmos, immobilized,purified and still clearly recognizable. What do you make of thisstatement? Do you agree with Parmenides?
13. In otherwords, what would be Real according to Parminides?
14. Do you agree with Plato that our world of physical objects andbeings is not real, nor permanent because everything is in aconstant state of change?

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