PHIL100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Realism, Physicalism
23 Oct 2017
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Historical reason: very influential (first to write about souls) Empathetic reason : to see the world from the perspective of another person. Valid = impossible for true premises and false conclusion. Sound = valid, and all premises are true, therefore there is a true conclusion. Rejects: materialism physicalism : every existing thing in the universe is a. Accepts: dualism: there are two kinds of substances found in the universe (material substances and immaterial substances) Metaphysical idealism: every physical fact depends upon a mental fact. Plato"s theory of the forms an ideal and separate form by virtue of which the plurality are recognizable as the same. Global dualism(gd): two kinds of substances in the universe. Anthropic dualism(ad): the human body is made of two substances(mind and body) material object (i. e. no soul) Thesis: whenever there is a plurality of things which are all called by a single name(i. e. cats ), there exists.
