PHL 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Felicific Calculus
28 Dec 2017
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This course we are focusing mainly in western philosophy: critical thinking, thinking outside the box, dates back to ancient greek, asks a lot of question, trying to find answers. In greek: (philia = love) + (sophia = wisdom) = love of wisdom. Micro-level: looking at or reflecting to yourself. Macro-level: looking at the value of all. The study of: logical argumentation, relevant to nursing b/c the essential parts of their job is to advocate for pts, conceptual analysis, when we look at our ideas we are looking or doing, eg. But what is respect: underlying assumptions, looking towards our assumptions and applying it to reality and looking for evidence. ** not (always or just) about how thing are, how we think about things, how. You need to use reasons. (untangible: values, norms, normativity. Empirical claim: claim of how the world be.
