PHI 1500 Lecture 1: 8/25-Phil1500
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Began via wealthy citizens, time & leisure. Born/death: 460-399bc, 460bc, 20 years before budda. Western philospohy : most developped, independent of cultural context & religion. Translation from greek -> the love of wisdom. Deepest most fundamental questions you can ask. Politics: way the state ought to be. Gov. should respect life liberty pursuit of happiness (john locke) Law of identity: a thing must be itself to be itself (a=a) Definitive characteristic to be what i am. Law of contradiction: a thing cannot both be and not be in the same respect and in the same time (a cannot equal not a) Law of the excluded middle: in a pair of contradictiory opposites you must be one, cannot be both, and cannot be neither a or b. All tru things are not false tings. All false things are not true things. Contradictory: you are either male or not male. Epistomology : study of truth of knowledge.
