PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Gaunilo Of Marmoutiers, Theodicy, Wu Wei
Document Summary
Ethical vision and political vision for a monist is the same thing. All philosophers are virtuous as long as you have your virtues organized in the right order. Monism: a conflict between two beings, either one is right and one is wrong or both are wrong. Pluralism: all beings have a share background on politics which is different than their ethics vision. Meta-blob (coexisting states/ international law): many people with different ideas on the good life living in coexisting states. There are multiple answers to the same question. Immediate consequence: the world as experienced is not real; reality lies elsewhere. Thus strong appearance/ reality distinction: the resulting task: get to this (transcendent) reality. Aristotle basic m/e schema: causality is not transcendental but observable (ef. Philosophy is the way insofar as contemplation (in leisure) is seen to suffuse action (in politics), and vice versa, to make a just society.
