PP111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Viktor Frankl, Subatomic Particle, Omnibenevolence
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) for ourselves and to make up our own minds about our self, life, knowledge, society, religion, and morality. Aim: not reject religious, political and moral beliefs but to learn why we hold them and what good reasons that possesses. Freedom and ability to decide for yourself what you believe in, by using your own reasoning powers. Wrote parable the allegory of the cave that tells . Described human situation; ignorance and learning philosophical work on justice. (2000 years ago) Like the prisoners in the cave, we accept beliefs/opinions of those around us. Study of knowledge (ex. what is truth?) Claim that all things/beings are not free because everything happens in. Determinism accordance with some regular pattern or law (proposed by paul henri d"holbach) Denied determinism; in german prison camps, he was struck by how often people responded to the situation with generosity and selflessness. Everything we have done in the past (including past lives) determine our present selves.
