PHIL 1100H Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Dogma, Habituation, Divine Command Theory
6 Feb 2017
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Do you feel that you understand the point of the two articles? last paragraph. When rachels praises cultural relativism for providing an antidote to dogmatism", do you know when he means by dogmatism: dogmatism: saying something that is just to be taken as true without evidence or other opinions. Note that rand"s egoistic individual is different from aristotle"s individual. Both sorts of selves are arguably self-interested. But their conceptions of the self are very different. Note that the reverse is not true; pe does not necessarily mean ee. Ee: one"s only moral duty is to promote one"s own interests: interests: what really is to one"s own best advantage over the long run [rachels, 10 in course pack] Pe: interested in what motivates human beings to act, not what they do. Pe [descriptive theory] is assumed by ee [prescriptive theory] Pe: a view that the individual self is motivated by the individual"s own self-interest.
