PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infinite Regress, Foundationalism, Reflective Equilibrium
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Claim -> reason 1 -> reason 2 -> reason infinity. Claim -> reason 1 -> reason x -> claim. 4: a coherent network of mutually supporting reasons. 1 every action has an end, most are just instrumental. 3 so there must be something at which all things aims call it happiness. 1 final explain what most final must mean. 3 pleasant explain why diff from pleasure = happiness. It must consist in the activity that is the function of humans. A function is for someone else; i have no function qua man. Every trip has a destination, so there must be a final destination for all trips. You read a book to make you sound interesting a. The more reasons you give, the more you need! Each claim has reasons, the more reasons the more claims, forever and ever.
