PHIL 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nicomachean Ethics, Bacon, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
4 Feb 2016
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Socrates is charged of failure to follow rules and corruption and failure to teach. Socrates proves views are contradictory or unexplained and not right in his philosophy. Meaning of good to be loved by the gods: this view is often called divine view . The gods don"t really disagree. contradictory of history/myths. Claim: disjunked: either a or b, a is false, b is false. Claim false: a or b are the horns of the dilemma, you want horns to be the only possibilities. Dilemma gods love something because it is good or it is good because the. Socrates said one must be true and the other must be false. What determines what they like is you because you just said what they do. If god is really making a decision than his choices have to be arbitrary. How do gods decide what is good. Arbitrary a property of decisions or choices without a reason.
