Class Notes for Philosophy at St Joseph's College at University of Alberta (page 2)

PHIL 355 Lecture Notes September 12, 2017 Recall from Sept 7 lecture: Utilitarians argue Happiness is intrinsically good to every human being Everything else is instrumentally good (good as a means to achieving happiness...

PHIL 355 Lecture Notes September 14, 2017 Two Alternatives: Contractarianism versus Virtue Ethics Contractarianism Assumes fundamental disagreement between people about our most basic reasons for action o Follows Hobbes t...

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October 11,2017 (Wednesday) Kant, Groundwork Deontology - Deon = duty - The duties that you follow - The rightness of an action depends on its relation to duty. - Duty is rule that has the power...

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October 4, 2017 (Wednesday) Higher and Lower Pleasures - Mill Objection to the answer We see people always choosing a lower pleasure. His view does not show how we actually work. Some people ...

Oct 8 We can have respect only if we place the moral law above ourselves because it can command us. The pure form of lawfulness itself is the categorical imperative. Kant alludes to Socrates. Socrates claims that we are ig...

PHIL 355 Lecture 4 Notes September 19, 2017 Animal Rights Non-Anthropocentric Critiques: Sentience/Consciousness and Moral Standing Readings: Singer, 1974, All Animals are Equal; Regan, 1985, The Case for Animal Rights ...

PHILOSOPHY 343 IMMANUEL KANT We will treat two things today: 1. We will make some comments on the problem of metaphysics for Kant, in both senses of the genetive—subjective genetive: what it is metaphysics poses as a p...

November 6, 2017 (Monday) The Development of Society Hobbes - Self preservation Rousseau - Pity and self love How did we end up here? - State of nature is a perfect equilibrium Development of r...

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PHIL 355 Lecture Notes September 7, 2017 Tree Killing in Stanley Park, Vancouver The inspiration for the short film linked to on eClass (Grands Arbres) June Matheson poisoned and killed trees that were blocking her view ...

B. Empiricist Metaphysics 1. Lockes Limited Realism > Perception (empirical experience is the process of sensing insensible or imperceptible particles that our brainmind translates into ideas, the majority of which do not ...

November 1, 2017 (Wednesday) The State of Nature - Contd - Human nature in the state of nature Heightened senses (very well developed), robust, agile, courageous, and well organized (adaptive to...