ENGL1010 Study Guide - Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism, Categorical Imperative
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Exam structure: short answer, 2 essay questions, short one, long one (about beauvoir) Thinking like a philosopher: dialectical thinking- iii. i. It proceeds from uncertain premises i: proceeds by giving and responding to reasons for and against (it"s a process) It is always in some way a dialogue dialogic: distinction b/w demonstration and dialectic. It is right or wrong depending on whether it allows the text to open up: collingwood"s distinction b/w right and true, right-anything that allows the dialectical discussion to continue. [def] epistemology g: criteria of relevance and the analogy b/w everyday figures you would consult about a moral decision and relevant positions to consider in the history of ethics. Idea is you have to have a sense of all the possible alternatives i: the criteria that will help you determine which of all the many possible alternatives are the ones that you should be talking about.
