[PHIL 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Kyle Bromhall

Document Summary

Weekly reflection due in paper in thursday seminars. Response paper #1 is due october 17th. Response paper #2 is due november 14th. The questioning of everything for the sake of becoming wiser. The sustained attempt to think clearly about topics which are foundational to the human experience through the employment of dialectic and logic. A set of tools that can be applied to a certain set of questions. Inherent social aspect of philosophy; must involve discussing and engaging with someone else. Philosophy is different than other disciplines, and there is essentially no memorization that comes along with it; philosophy is more interested in reasoning processes and theoretical precision than memorizing all the little things. Stop using the words right and wrong to describe actions. Morally permissible: okay if you do it, okay if you don"t. Morally impermissible: not okay for you to do it. Morally obligatory: it is never okay to not do it.