Philosophy 1250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Making Money, Card Money
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3 most important things for the exam are aristotle, utilitarianism and kant. There will be 4 topics in the essay part, but you only need to prepare 2 topics. Describe x"s philosophy and indicate some of blackburn"s criticism. The more information you give the better you do. 2 of the 3 essays will be two of the major philosophers. We are writing 1 essay out of 4 options. Second formulation: whenever you do something, always act in such a way that you could will the maxim of you act to be a universal law. Always act in a way that can be universalized > the maxim of your act (your intention) should be a universal law. We are given the idea of the maxim of your act. Kant has this thought that every time you do something, there is a (cid:1688)maxim(cid:1689) that has to do with identifying the thing that we are doing.