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Nicomachean Ethics:
Written by Aristotle
Happiness depends on living in accordance with appropriate virtues
Ultimate purpose in life is eudaimonea
o Human flourishing: a good life or translated to happiness
Good is things that everything else is done
A priori A posteriori
Knowledge gained w.o prior experience Knowledge gained w. previous experience
Ex. 1 +1 = 2 Ex. Ducks in Pellands classroom
Analytic Synthetic
True by definition Not true by definition
Inductive Deductive
Conclusion probably true Conclusion must be true
Epistemology
Types of Knowledge
Rationalism Empiricism
there are ways that knowledge is gained view that there is no such thing as innate
without any prior sense experience knowledge, and that instead knowledge is
derived from experience
Skepticism
Local Global
Doubts certain aspects Doubts everything
Descartes:
Mind and body duality
Meditations
Doubts his senses and everything he ever learned
Pretends life is a dream where logic and math are still true
There is an evil genius controlling his mind
WAX (you can not trust your senses)
COGITO (I think, therefore I am)
Locke:
Empiricist tabula rasa (blank slate)
Objects are merely a simple list of observable qualities
o Each quality = an idea
All matter has an underlying substance holding it together
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David Hume
Humes Fork
Every statement is either a:
Relations of ideas 2+2 = 4
Matter of fact Tigers in Indias
Analytic Synthetic
A posteriori Not Possible Humes Matter of Fact
A priori Humes Relations of Ideas Mind actively orders our
experience, causing synthetic
and a priori
(cause & effect)
Metaphysics
The attempt to understand what reality is
Monism
Dualism
Pluralism
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Belief that the universe is made up of multiple substances
Leibniz: everything in the world is composed of monads (like atoms)
o Cant interact, pre programmed by God in pre determined harmony
Cosmological Argument
Everything has to be caused by something or created from something. Therefore, the universe must have
had a cause.
o Aristotle: called it the prime mover (aka God)
Ontological Argument
the argument that God, being defined as most great or perfect, must exist, since a God who exists is
greater than a God who does not.
o If perfection is a characteristic, God who is the most perfect being must exist
Cons: premise is based directly on if God actually exists. Existence isnt a characteristic it is an
individual property
Argument of Design
Pascals Wager
Freewill
Natural Evil Evil caused by a divine agent (ex/ land slides, tornados)
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Moral Evil Evil caused my humankinds ill moral action (ex/ murder, theft)
Ethics:
Utilitarianism
moral law that is made of maximizing the most happiness for the most amount of people
o Utility principle: generates greatest good for greatest # of people
Bentham: consider quantity of pleasure
John Stewart Mill: consider quantity and quality of pleasure
Used in government systems
Pros Cons
-works great in politics -doesnt take the minority into consideration
-leaves many people happy -makes some non-virtuous actions, moral.
(ex/ cheating)
Deontology
Virtue Ethics
Existentialism
Existentialism is Humanism: