PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simone De Beauvoir, Political Philosophy, Gottlob Frege
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What is philosophy? (aristotle: big questions, is there a god?", what is existence?", what do we know? , what is consciousness?". Unlike most things in the world there"s something happening inside of us. The brain creates the conscious, but we don"t know why or how it happens. People see different colours: i. e. someone seeing green but calling it red: how should we live?" what is a good life? investigated by reason. Use of arguments (some structure of thought that is supposed to lead to a conclusion: the hand off". In the old days, people would ask what is matter?" and nobody knew. It was soon realized, that it was physical science. Once there is work is involved, philosophers tend to let someone else do it (hand off). Handing off questions we know how to answer. Without it there would be no cell phones (what is matter and how can we manipulate it?)
