PHI 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Amos Tversky, Negativity Bias, Consistency

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Dean Lauer

Document Summary

Accent warfare was horrific and brutal seeing that the soldiers would confront the enemy in personal, face-to-face and hand-to-hand combat. Hoplite comes from the greek word hoplon; meaning shield. The greek system was distinctive in its day because athens was conducting the first experiment in democracy, complete with written laws guaranteeing enumerated rights to all citizens regardless of social standing. They were also the first to debate the idea of freedom, equality, and democracy and to give them philosophical expression. Greek citizens had privileges unknown in the rest of the world, (right to vote, run for office, speak at city council meetings. Socrates would ask this question when he thought someone"s thinking was muddled. He justified his assumptions by stating the fact that when one"s thinking is unclear, it"s hard to truly know if it corresponds to reality. If the interlocutor can"t answer the first question he/she doesn"t know what he/she is talking about.