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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 |
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