PHI 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marcionism, Erectile Dysfunction, Gender Role

• School: UCF
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2010
• Professor: J E F F R E Y N A L L

Document Summary

Humanities include: philosophy, religion, history, language arts: linguistics, literature, creative writing etc, performing arts, visual arts. Transactionalism: most students view education as a transaction meant to yield economic enrichment. People strive for not just success, but nancial success. At what cost do you gain the money you feel you need to survive and thrive. What is philosophy: a thinking activity involving the search for truth about the world and our place in it, philosophy involves critically examining fundamental ideas (truth, god, freedom, Solomon: its an attitude of critical and systematic thoughtfulness rather than a particular subject matter . Philosophical thinking involves: attempts to coordinate your ideas into a coherent, consistent worldview or conceptual framework, acknowledging others" ideas, facing objections to certain beliefs, defending your ideas and/or at times, revising one"s beliefs. Philosophical problems: arise when our beliefs seem to be: false, incompatible with one another, seem logically impossible, Philosophy is critical to scienti c thinking and assumptions.