PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Eudaimonia, Dialectic, Metic
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Philosophy lecture: fear of reprisal, selection of the right people, seduction it is philosophically seductive. Therefore: the limits of argument, and the need for narrative. Book 1: foreshadow of the issues of force and desire. Also note: the defence of j5, the psychological definition of justice. One cannot see philosophical arguments as compelling ones unless one is already a philosopher. One cannot become a philosopher unless one sees philosophical argument as compelling ones. It follows that one can never become a philosopher. It is instead about justice in the soul all along. It works as a puzzle designed to free (some of) us from: plato"s cave; And this is how plato resolves his own version of the philosopher"s dilemma. Conclusion: plato"s republic is not about a republic: ); vision; deduction; universalization - - top down. Aristotle: scientist; observation; induction; generalization - - bottom-up. Aristotle the stagirite (384-322); a metic from macedonia.
