PHIL 2P13- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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Mary, here is , go to store and get me magazine . So common they are not noticed by thinking or not even recognized as assumptions but rather as givens or obvious truths. So these assumptions go often unquestioned cuz they are not questionable. Soul is distinct from body and senses and immortal. Contemporary western thinking has same myths (assumptions) as ancient greece. There are four built in assumptions in all indian thought which are taken as givens. St augustine wondered if time existed before god created everything else. God created time before he created anything else. Having a beginning of time means someone had to start it so god must exist. Any act undertaken at the level of personal responsibility. The universal cosmic law that ensures every act receives the appropriate rewards or consequences. Desire ---> resolves ----> deed -----> fruit (phala) -----> fate (daivam)