PHIL 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Petrified Wood, Western Philosophy, Superiority Complex
12 Jan 2017
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Check them both out because sometimes one set picks up something the other misses, and vice-versa. You want to think about the nature of various entities and how they"re the same and how they"re different. One of the key concepts of this chapter is teleological centre of activity. To see if you understand this you should try to apply this concept to each object standing in front of you (orange, plant, person, baby, piece of pottery, petrified wood). You must test the concepts against things around you. Chapter 3 forester in bc has a certain practice and attitude towards trees and when he is asked why he practices selective cutting when it is so onerous, he gives a moral/value answer to this. So far with moral theories we have seen there is a required attitude of consideration (singer), respect (regan), and arguably the most strong here, which is reverence. However, there are also action entailments as well:
