PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Hobbes, Helen Keller, Circular Reasoning
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Given advice as to how to live, the best attitudes to have. There is no absolute power over us in a modern state like canada because there is recognition that there are different parts of the government that work independently. For example, the judiciary can declare that the decision made by the government is unacceptable. This separation among powers prevents the monopoly of the arbitrary decisions of the absolute power. This is what you need to understand how the human mind works. Hume is not just a philosopher but also a psychologist in this sense: some (cid:494)easy and obvious(cid:495) philosophy address human agents (cid:523)advice, exhort(cid:524) (cid:494)accurate and abstruse(cid:495) is what (ume(cid:495)s book is. By reasoning carefully & accurately you(cid:495)ll have the best chance of understanding how the body because you(cid:495)ll have a better grasp of why someone is moving in a certain way. (cid:498)the anatomist is useful to the painter(cid:499)
