Question

How do the earliest philosopher begin to think of "reality," and seek to develop a method to do so? (e.g., Thales, Anaximander).

Answer 1

There are many philosophical concepts present the tells about that reality of the world and its illusive nature. Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of them.

According to this concept

We are living in the false, illusionary and imaginary world which resembles some kind of cave.when someone realizes it and escape from it. Then he can see the real world. Now he realizes that Everything was an illusion what he saw in the world, where he was living. In Plato’s allegory shadow on the cave walls and statues are also an imitation of real things.

According to Plato, it is a duty of the person who saw reality, must return to save others in order to save humanity from false reality and ignorance.

In sociology and theory of communication, social constructionism is a theory of knowledge which analyse the development of combined created knowledge of the world that the ground for assumption (shared) for reality.

According to social constructionism allow the presence of objective reality. It also focuses on how knowledge is created and learned. Perspective of this theory is epistemological instead of logical.

Social construct theory focuses on the interaction between people and reality.

There àre many limitations of this theory because of this theory on the nurture end.It ignores the biological influence on the culture and behaviour.

Hence, it limits the scope of this theory