PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Universal History, Human Nature, Ontological Argument
11 Jan 2017
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Lecture idea for a universal history continued. Two things we do in philosophy/ are entitled to: philosophy gives us the right to take about different subjects, any subject, because philosophy wants to know what the essential reality of the world is. Wants to know the essence of things has privileged access that science doesn"t have, for example. However, the one entity we can"t speak for is other people"s experiences. We can speak about human experience in general, but we can"t say what someone else is experiencing. We must let those experiences inform the general worldview we have: doing philosophy requires being fundamentally open to other ideas, even those that contradict your own. Conflict between two different forces of nature and something is produced. Planting too many trees in one area: too much conflict, no trees actualize themselves. Planting trees far from each other: trees will grow crooked.
