PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Explanatory Power
2 Dec 2016
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If you like my work please help and donate to my business! Has significance in what the meaning of life is, for how we ought to live and for what we ought to worship. What is the meaning of ultimately real: simplifying everything to analyze things into something still more basic. Why is man"s place in the real significant: significant in the meaning of life, for how we ought to live and for what we ought to worship. Metaphysical data: fundamental assumptions that we seem to bring to experience rather than derive from it, and which we seem firmly to believe in without being able to prove, they are immune to challenge. Explain the role of authority in metaphysical investigation including the different types of authorities: role:** reliance on authorities of various kinds. Three points on reliance in expert authority. The authorities involved are ordinary human beings exercising ordinary human capacities and methods of gaining knowledge.
