PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Zygote, Fetus, Epicurus
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Says that everything in our lives are predetermined events that have been planned by a force greater than us. Free will is not a matter of degree. No because you cannot control who will be the fittest. Fallacy is that animals have the same ability to feel and comprehend certain: specifically, richards argues that all ethics requires empirical assumptions. If that were so, there d be nothing to complain about. If the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the rule of life which is good enough for the one would be good enough for the other. How are our pleasures superior to swine s: because they are not merely sensory, because they are more complicated, because they have a temporal development we can describe. Questions for philo 61-80: role of reason in singers conception of ethics should be universal. Everybody should have a basic concept of reasoning.
