PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Natural Sounds, Simile
18 Apr 2016
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Chapter 9: facts and values (no need to read the text for chapter 8&9) How can our nature guide us? (167: concepts such as nature seem to combine reports of fact with judgements of value , midgley on the strong and the weak sense of the term natural". To earn a degree if you"re mistaken what the good is it unfortunate even if it is a mistake, you still feel good about it: plato on the good and he simile of the sun. They are thus never logically isolated from some kind of evaluating (170) Ant it is because our wants conflict that we have problems . As a structural property for the species, thought finds its way into everything else. But structural properties do not have to be exclusive or necessarily excellent. Midgley: they are part of a team.
