Philosophers in King's Cross WAS :Re: CHAPDISC: DH35, KING'S CROSS

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> Zara:
> LOL.
> 
> I could not find one either, perhaps owing to my relative lack of 
> education in Ancient Greek philosophy. I found a reference to 
> Descartes' famous "I think, therefore I am" in Harry's thought in 
the 
> early going that he can now consider that he exists as more than 
> disembodied thought. 

Alla:

Right that is the not Greek one that I was thinking of of course.

Zara:
> I also found in Dumbledore's final statement a flavor of Kant's 
> distinction between noumena and phenomena. Noumena being things 
known 
> to the mind/imagination, rather than the senses, as opposed to 
> phenomena, which are the things we perceive through our senses. 
<SNIP>

Alla:

Too cool, no did not see that one at all. Okay, I was thinking about 
Plato's theory of forms, that whatever is materializing around Harry 
are those pure forms and everything in our material word are just 
shadows of it. Harry does think that maybe he is in some great Room 
ofrequirement, so I was thinking that maybe Hogwarts room of 
requirement is the imperferct shadow of this one.

I also want to say that I really did not mean to make this question 
hard. I was thinking about philosophy 101 for the most part and was 
just shooting for something different, for more or less not well 
discussed topic, you know?