PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rationality
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God is perfectly good so that people behave as such. Single god = no quarrel amongst gods. Soldiers: harsh to enemies, gentle to citizens. Answer: we"re trying to make the whole city happy. Successful city: wise, courageous, moderate, and just . Self that controls may be different than self that is controlled. Thesis 1: the soul has at least two parts. C1: appetites and wants must come from separate parts of the soul. Thesis 2: the soul has exactly three parts. C2: emotion is not part of the appetitive. P2: small children and animals have emotions. P3: neither children nor animals are rational. : the emotion part in p1 = the emotion in p2. : there are only two parts of the soul. : all emotions come from different parts of the soul, since emotions contrast. Problems: wanting is a mental state and mental states are not analogous to physical states.
