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A fitting place to start if we are discussing whether we can have true knowledge of anything, is Plato and Aristotle. The two crusaders for finding out what true knowledge is and where we can find true knowledge and yet, the two scholars who held drastically contradictory views on the issue of epistemology (the study of knowledge). Plato’s understanding of knowledge- We can take a grasp of Plato’s theory of knowledge if we explore his analogy of the cave. Plato was convinced of objective truth, he saw the immaterial World of forms (W.O.F) as the place where true knowledge can be gained and therefore placed little value on the experiences of sense-perception (experiences we have using our senses such as sight and smell). These were the assumptions behind Plato’s analogy of the cave which he gives in his great work ‘Republic’. The analogy of the cave was Plato’s way of arguing that we cannot trust our senses. The prisoners were bound in the cave, they were blind to the true wor...

"If God is male, then male is God" Mary Daley (Beyond God the Father 1973) Daley's argument is that all the major figures in Christianity are men, for example, the Pope, the Bishop, the Disciples, God, Jesus Christ and many other figures and roles in Christianity and thus, Christianity is a male religion and suffers from the influence men have on it. Daley speaks of the 'unholy trinity' of Rape, Genocide and War which are at the centre of Christianity because Christianity is a religion based on empowering men. She points to the Old Testament conquests of the Israelite people as an example in Scripture of where the unholy trinity is shown, where women, men and children were murdered and where (in some cases) women were the spoils of war for many of the warriors in the Old Testament. Daley wrote in 'Beyond God the Father' 1973- "If God in "his" heaven is a father ruling "his" people, then it is in the ...