PHIL100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Materialism, Omnipotence, Essentialism
25 Oct 2017
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Means of knowing = recollection of the forms. Human nature - core values, behavioral dispositions, and basic needs found in a human. Essentialism - the view that there is an immutable human nature found in all human persons and at all times and in all cultures. Conventionalism - the view that human nature is a product from society, economics, race, and individual choice. Utopian - the view that a perfectly just human society can be achieved in this world. Dystopian - the view that an utopia is impossible. Totalitarian - the view that government should rule any and every aspect of its citizens" lives. Positive eugenics - more offspring from the fit. Negative eugenics - less offspring from the unfit. Dualism - there are material and immaterial things. Critique of plato: too rigid a view of human nature (you are what you are and there"s no changing that) 2: no checks and balances or diffusion of power.
