PHL 333 Lecture 1: PHL333 Lecture 1
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
PHL333- philosophy of human nature
Lecture 1
Assignments
In class test- 30% (March 26)
Essay- 35% (due Feb 12)
Final Essay- 35% (April 19th)
Philosophy paper
- Trying to catch your thoughts
- Pull implications, analyze it, thinking through line of thought
- On your own thinking
Test
- 1 hour
- short passage from text and explain it given class discussions
Essays
- will be reflection of what we talk about in class
What is it to be human, what is human nature, what are the distinctive features that characterize
humans?
- Form of self-knowledge trying to gain from class
- Philosophers put a lot of weight on philosophical contemplation and humans questioning
what it means to be human’
- Scientific questioning about surroundings and self is essential in humans
- Students in class is a phenomenon because humans are the only creatures that sit in a
class, listening to someone talk
- Subject matter studying is about you, people around you, world you are living in
- Weather is not a human phenomenon but giving rain a name, identifying it is distinctive
human phenomenon
- Study of human nature is every moment of your life, what makes everything you do more
than just the common reality everything shares
- Ask what makes you as a collection of chemicals distinct from everyone/everything else
- Everything around us is an expression of human reality
- To understand human nature, is to understand stuff around you
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Document Summary
Pull implications, analyze it, thinking through line of thought. 1 hour short passage from text and explain it given class discussions. Will be reflection of what we talk about in class. Form of self-knowledge trying to gain from class. Philosophers put a lot of weight on philosophical contemplation and humans questioning what it means to be human . Scientific questioning about surroundings and self is essential in humans. Students in class is a phenomenon because humans are the only creatures that sit in a class, listening to someone talk. Subject matter studying is about you, people around you, world you are living in. Weather is not a human phenomenon but giving rain a name, identifying it is distinctive human phenomenon. Study of human nature is every moment of your life, what makes everything you do more than just the common reality everything shares. Ask what makes you as a collection of chemicals distinct from everyone/everything else.
