PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism, Psychological Egoism
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Will profoundly affect how you see yourself, how you see others, and how you live: agreed with freud that human beings are essentially selfish and aggressive (psychological egoism) Deductive argument: one supposed to show that its conclusion necessarily has to be true if the premises are true. Inductive argument: one that is supposed to show that its conclusion is probably true if its premises are true. The importance of understanding human nature: views about human nature also influence your relationship to the universe, your perception of human nature determines even how you think we should set up our society. What is human nature: believe that all human beings have a self: the ego or i that exists in a physical body that is conscious and rational. This self can think, reason, and perceive: believe that this self is different from, but related to, the body.
