Philosophy 1020 Lecture 1: Philosophy 1020 Introduction to Philosophy

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Anthony Skelton

Document Summary

Readings for week 4 is not complete on printed course outline. New assignment (handed out thursday), due two weeks from thursday. Do not love and seek wisdom about everything instead they love and seek wisdom about a select set of issues. Philosophers focus on matters that are of fundamental importance to understand ourselves and the world we inhabit. They typically begin their search by examining our common-sense attitudes about these matters. The end point of philosophical exploration is a rationally justified and reasonably systematic view of these matters. Philosophy critical examination of our common-sense beliefs of matter s of fundamental importance to making sense of our nature the nature if the world we inhabit and the relationship between the two. The task is undertaken with the goal of arriving at a comprehensive and rational view of ourselves, the nature if the world we inhabit and the relationship between them.