PHIL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Self-Control, Sophist, Invisibility
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Ontology theory about the nature of things (reality) Epistemology claim about what we can know. |____________ levels of reality (two layer view of reality) Becoming: physical world perceived by our senses (always changing, in movement) Being: the world of ideas (absolute, independent, transcendent) Ontological claims can be understood without senses. Senses can deceive us, so ontological is more reliable (?) For greeks, people are reduced to a soul. Done with generalities, we will specifically look at fragments now . 3 distinctions of what is good: immediate gratification, justice doesn"t always give that, postpone gratification for justice. Self control is needed to resist instant gratification. Do things that are right because they are right not because we fear consequences. Important quote: i will tell you, i replied; justice, which is the subject of our inquiry, is, as you know, sometimes spoken of as the virtue of an individual, and sometimes as the virtue of a state.
