PHL 333 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Aristotle
20 Nov 2018
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Pull implications, analyze it, thinking through line of thought. 1 hour short passage from text and explain it given class discussions. Will be reflection of what we talk about in class. Form of self-knowledge trying to gain from class. Philosophers put a lot of weight on philosophical contemplation and humans questioning what it means to be human". Scientific questioning about surroundings and self is essential in humans. Students in class is a phenomenon because humans are the only creatures that sit in a class, listening to someone talk. Subject matter studying is about you, people around you, world you are living in. Weather is not a human phenomenon but giving rain a name, identifying it is distinctive human phenomenon. Study of human nature is every moment of your life, what makes everything you do more than just the common reality everything shares. Ask what makes you as a collection of chemicals distinct from everyone/everything else.
