PHIL 1000 Lecture : 112811.doc
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A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. If all things are given to us by presentation through an idea in the mind of god who projects a perceptual field and we enter it. We are not the initiators, rather we are experiencers. The issue is trying to reconcile the properties of god with what seems to be needed for moral responsibility. It only makes sense to talk of moral responsibility when you could have done otherwise. Leibnz asks how we can give humans free will while have a deity that is all-knowing. A: you need to make your thoughtfulness and insight evident in the essay when reporting on a particular philosophy. Surprise the professor with something you saw in the text (like an inconsistency, connection, new perspective). When i see things i see an idea. The collection of my ideas make up an object. The object just is what i observe, touch, taste and smell and hear.
