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Course Introduction | Course Introduction | ![]() |
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What is philosophy? | 1. what is philosophy 2. roundabout way of explaining philosophy 3. Peculiar features of philosophical questions | ![]() |
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What is philosophy? | Peculiar features of philosophical questions | ![]() |
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The beginning of philosophy | 1. Thales 2. What maeks Thales a philosopher? 3. Anaximander | ![]() |
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The beginning of philosophy | 1. The indefinite 2. The lesson from Thales and Anaximander 3. A few remarks on 'Criticism', 'Dehate' and 'Argument' 4. Dialectical process of inquiry | ![]() |
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Socrates and sophists | 1. Sophists 2. Athenian democracy and the importance of rhetoric 3. Protagoras the first humanist | ![]() |
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Socrates and sophists | 1. Relativism 2. Cultural relativism 3. Relativism and Tolerance | ![]() |
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Socratic methods | 1. Relativism and Tolerance 2. Socrates' life 3. How do we evaluate Socrates? | ![]() |
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Socratic methods | 1. Socrates' life 2. How do we evaluate Socrates? 3. Difference between Socrates and Sophists | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. Socratic aversion to writing 2. Plato's writings' dual quality: the fun of reading Plato 3. Analysis of Euthyphro | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. Analysis of Euthyphro 2. Analysis of 10d-11b 3. How to understand the point of Socrates' question 4. Rationality of gods | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. Rationality of gods 2. Divine command theory 3. The euthyphro dilema 4. Futher implications of Soc's critique of DCT | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. The republic 2. Cephalus | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. Cephalus 2. Polemarchus 3. Socrates' critique | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | Socrates' critique | ![]() |
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What is justice? Plato's republic | 1. Reflections on Cephalus and Polemarchus 2. Thrasymachus 3. New beginning | ![]() |
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Is there God? St. Anselm's ontological argument | 1. Various kinds of arguments for God's existence 2. Anselm's ontological argument 3. Analysis of Anselm's argument | ![]() |
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Is there God? St. Anselm's ontological argument | 1. Analysis of Anselm's argument 2. Kant's first objection: Existential sentences are synthetic 3. Kant's second objection: Existence is not predicate | ![]() |
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Is there God? St. Anselm's ontological argument | 1. Conceptual preparation 2. Existence as a second order prediate 3. Kant's second objection: Existence is not a predicate 4. Arguments against God's existence | ![]() |
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Faith and reason, Pascal's wager | 1. Pascal 2. Pascal's wager 3. Conceptual preparations 4. Argument from superdominance | ![]() |
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Faith and reason, Pascal's wager | 1. Argument from superdominance 2. Argument from expectations 3. Argument from dominating expectations | ![]() |
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The beginning of modern consciousness, Descartes' Meditations | 1. Modern philosophy-the epistemological turn 2. Rationalism vs Empiricism 3. Descartes | ![]() |
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The beginning of modern consciousness, Descartes' Meditations | 1. Cogito ergo sum 2. Cartesian Dualism 3. Dualism vs Monism | ![]() |
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The problem of causation, Hume's inquiry | 1. David Hume 2. Hume on induction | ![]() |
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The problem of causation, Hume's inquiry | 1. Hume on induction 2. Paradox of Induction-Raven Paradox | ![]() |
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The problem of egoism | 1. Altruism 2. Critiques of psychological egoism | ![]() |