PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Egotism, Empiricism, Relativism
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The unexamined life is not worth living -socrates. *opinions shape our lives: principles are embedded in opinions. Thinking is improved by apprenticeship and thinking along with philosophers. Kids are philosophers with their sense of wonder. Metaphysics: theory of reality what is there fundamentally? . Epistemology: theory of knowledge what and how do we know of this? . Aesthetics: what is beauty: subjective (affectation) vs objective (form) Politics: what is justice: power vs wisdom. Ethics: what is right action: egoism vs altruism. Human nature: the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans. Identify argument: evaluate the premises, premises support the conclusion. Mythology: stories and sensory images: goddesses told homer and heise about the myths about zeus etc. Nature philosophy: concept of being (atomism>sophists>socrates: philosophers want reasons/arguments, mental concepts. Major theme: justice: balance as moderation. **philosophers want to arrive at clear, universal, concepts.
