PHIL 4073 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Socratic Dialogue, Medieval Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy
30 Nov 2016
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How ought i act is a illegitimate question. Specializes in german philosophers: hegel, marx, hiedeger, nietzche etc. Hard to fit into analytic philosophy tradition. All of whom were concerned with human life in its practical aspects: medieval philosophy- used god/religion to decide the right. 1st question- what is the centeral question about practical human life. 2nd what methods are relavent ot answer this- reason, immanent/transcendence knowledge, naturalist. Immanent/ transcendental contrals: can be seen in early socratic dialogues and platos later works. Socrates are immanentist- checking for consistency checking for coherence no appeal to exotic insight: meno- transcendental thinking. Slave boy must have see geometry pre birth. Centrality from the christian world what ought i to do. No domain stands outside scope of ethics. Can be asked in any context: enlightenment model of modern ethics, 19/20centruy- hegel marx, adorno, kerkegard hegel tries to reconcile. Try to get beyond or reject this model in someway.
