[PHIL 1100H] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (36 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Compare with next week"s aristotle reading: note that rand"s egoistic individual is different from aristotle"s individual, both sorts of selves are arguably self-interested, but their conceptions of the self are very different. But he sets it aside: unexplored challenge: our own interests are also not clear to us. Cultural relativism: related to the argument that ethical egoism assumes we know our self-interest, we may feel strongly, but our moral views can reflect the prejudice of our society" [24] We" found them", eskimo", different: only way to ret-con this is to take rachels to be referring to the recipients of the stories that colonial explorers brought back to their people. We" refers to european [and descended] colonial recipients. Why read epictetus: from his time (50-130 ce) to late 19th century, almost everyone read stoicism (epictetus, marcus aurelius, seneca). Influence on modern philosophers, political leaders, literary authors, military leaders, and artists: helps with kant.
