PHL105Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Self-Determination, Side Effect, Human Nature
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8 short answer quesions, covers everything since midterms, same style of midterms. 2 short essays covers everything from the winter term. The big problem: it cannot explain human transendence, the idea that individual humans are not slaves to their biology, they can become separate from it. Self-determinaion theory a human being is an animal with free. The big problem cannot explain human defect, especially defect of the will. The funcion of a human heart is to pump blood: because of this . The sound it makes is simply a side-efect. If a heart cannot pump blood or pumps blood poorly, it is defecive not performing its funcion. Darwinian theory can help explain (natural selecion: hearts were selected for the blood pumping and not the noise making. Self-determinaion theory: the funcion of the human will cannot be explained by natural selecion a human will is not defecive if it produces efects other than what it was selected for.
