PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Egotism, Subjective Idealism, Empiricism

• School: CSU
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100
• Professor: Richard B Mckita

Document Summary

Requires an examination of one"s own opinions. The unexamined life is not worth living . As a practical craft/skill improved through apprenticeship thinking along with philosophers. The problem of relativism (different for different people) and skepticism (finding a solution). We were philosophers as children, filled with wonder and curiosity and asking why? . If you want to see how humans are supposed to be like, look at a kid. Look at kids on the playground, before they are in school, before they learn racism and hierarchy and sexism and competition and bullying. Our human nature is to be rational, to be philosophers. Our thinking skill was taken away from us. We are not encouraged to think critically or creatively. We are encouraged to learn for the test, learn for the grade. rant by professor. Reading philosophy: identify arguments: premises (reasons, evidence, support for ) and conclusion (main claim, proposition, central point)