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Philosophy 1305F/G Lecture 9: Philosophy 1305F/G - Lecture 9.docx

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25 Apr 2012
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Western University
Department
Philosophy
Course
Philosophy 1305F/G
Professor
Michael Fox

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Defined: evil is the privation of the good. Evil is the absence of the good one cannot know evil without knowing good. Evil is an accident of good not as in mistake though. It exists in a subject of something else. It needs something to exist in in order for it to exist. Evil can"t exist in the absence of the subject in question. Murder: depriving the innocent victim"s family of the killed"s life. Moral evil vs. natural evil [not on exam] An example of natural evil is cancer. Cancer has to be seen as evil as the thing that erodes the human body, where consumption would be depriving someone of something. Moral evils are functions of the human will (e. g. rape, murder, etc. ). If any component of the human act is lacking or contains a privation, that act will be said not to be good.

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Is wisdom something mostly intrinsically valuable and so desired solely for its own sake? Or is wisdom also instrumentally valuable and so desired also for the sake of something else you desire/want? If so, what?

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You value most things instrumentally, that is, as a means to some end. Usually, this is obvious and trivial. For instance, you value a washing machine that works—purely for its useful function, or instrumental value.

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