PHIL 1010 Lecture 1: LEC 1 PHIL1010
13 Feb 2019
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Liberalism: not what you think it is (today-october 7th) Democracy: the worst form of government (november 5th-final) Philosophy is the unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly about issues central to human experience, using dialectic and the laws of logic -wm james -not wm james. There is very little memorization of which to speak. We are more interested in reasoning processes and theoretical precision than memorizing things. Now is the time to stop using words right and wrong to describe actions. If an actions performance or non-performance fails to affect our assessment of the agent"s moral standing. If its performance in a given context would negatively affect our assessment of the agent"s moral standing (we think less of them). Always blameworthy if you do not do it. If you were to not do an action in any context, we would think less of that person. Doesn"t make you a bad person if you do not do it.
