PHIL 200- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
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Gorgias can make you a good person: themes. Soul knew everything but forgot it because it was incarnated in a body. Debate about whether we learn knowledge or are born with it: nature vs nurture, search for truth. Impericism is the hope that you can see examples and find the similarity. Other side is to apply concept generally and try to find concept: plot and notes. Begins with question of can virtue be taught. Socrates says no one knows what virtue is. Meno says there"s a virtue for every age and action. What is x: they don"t want a list of examples. That about something which, if you take it away, it ceases to be that thing. Sometimes we want both necessary and sufficient property. It is necessary for a square to have. 4 sides, but it is not sufficient for 4 sides could still be a rectangle.
