PHL244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intellectualism, Innatism, Human Nature
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Human life as a whole spheres. Good behaviour = good human being = happy human. Acquiring by practice excerisicing and training. Teaching being knowledge or wisdom: definition is to say what something is, not what it does how it looks like etc, knowledge and understanding of what virtue is. Inquiry about virtue and how it is to be required irtu is excellence of a human kind, condition of human being, to do well and florish as a human being. Inquiry searching for truth you don"t know is impossible. Either they are searching for something you already know or something yiu don"t know. Inquiry makes no sense, at first, it is a quest for knowledge y9ou dojt have, for truth that is not in your possession. If onje doesn"t know at all then, don"t know what to look for and if you do find it then y9ou wont recognize it. We can look for for something we already know.
