PHI 197 Study Guide - Human Nature, Callicles, Experience Machine
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Reflective investigation of questions that can"t be answered by the means of other disciplines. Humans are _x_ x: imperfect, not-methodical, reasoning creatures, pleasure, emotional (linguistically expressed), puzzling, free. Give that humans are _x_, _y_ follows. Hobbes x: rational, fearful, aggressive, of roughly equal power y: we should live in a society ruled by a big bully. If you follow your own moral code, you"ll be happy and you won"t be a sheep. Plato wrote plays influenced by socrates, who hardly wrote anything down. In one"s soul being righteous- trait of character (more of less righteous) Humans are _x_ x: only practice justice under that of punishment; only care about appearances; competition. State of nature, the original state of humans without pressures of laws and society. Socrates says people are just because they want to be just (you should feel bad for doing something bad)
