PHI 1101 Lecture 1: PHI1101 #1

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Human being is a rational animal (aristotle) The ability to reason or to think is the most fundamental characteristics of human beings. Non-human animals like dolphins or apes may exhibit a lower capacity to think, or reason, but the capacity to reason remains a central feature of what we are and how we think about ourselves. Certain conscious human activity involves reasoning (solving problems, making decisions, predict elections, making discoveries, interpreting works of art, repairing cars, etc. Reasoning is the active and systematic process of analysing, evaluating, and formulating of beliefs, or statements, by rational standards. Reasoning is a conscious activity, but mere consciousness or mere thinking is not reasoning. For example, watching tv or listening to others, or taking note of what is going around us, or experience feeling are conscious activity, but they are not reasoning. We are merely thinking when out thoughts occur to us one after another (sometimes ins a passive manner)

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