PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Philosophy, Liberal Democracy, Modern Philosophy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: John Hacker- Wright

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Can access colin ward, anarchism online in library. First must understand what sort of question it tries to answer. Often thought of as focused exclusively on grand pondurables: Concrete questions that everyone confronts at some point, speci cally political and moral questions, such as: Conventionalism: what majority thinks is right (appears to be false), an example is that slavery used to be considered permissible. Subjective relativism: assumes all opinions are equal no matter what the opinion may be its just your opinion . Dif cult because there are people with opinions that are far out. The question what is justice? is conceptual rather than empirical. Empirical: answered by means of observation or scienti c methods. Conceptual: relating to or based on mental concepts. When we pose questions that require us to gure out our concepts we tend to be driven to our fundamental beliefs, therefore we must pose questions against these fundamental beliefs to understand the original question (ex.