PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deductive Reasoning, Stoicism, Liar Paradox

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Jon Charles Miller

Document Summary

Ancient greeks (plato, socrates, aristotle) in 4th century bc believed that, fundamentally, humans are wise beings. The best way for us to live is to try and suppress our emotions = stoicism. Recent psychology has shown that we are emotional beings, not wise. Logic and rationale play a small part in human thinking. In reality, we are homo credulus = believing man. Four choices with how to deal with information. Censorship (tell me things i like to hear) Burning books (live in a world with nothing, no beliefs) That is the only option that can hopefully get us to arrive at the truth. Arguing with structure in a way that is not futile. The eternal jew nazi propaganda film. Widespread agreement among germans who are known to be intelligent. Turned off their brains and turned to their beliefs . We like to believe that our beliefs are true (validation) Believing something is true does not make it true.