PHIL 1010 Final: PhilosophyExamReview

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Topics are foundational to human experience through employment of dialect and logic. It is okay to take action but it is also okay not to take action. Good if you take action, bad if you do not. It is allowed for you to take action and is very good. Day 2 and 3- the state of nature. A concept used in moral and political philosophy, social contract theories. Hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence. First to attempt at describing the state. To use a contract argument to establish absolute government. He accomplished this by depicting the state of nature in horrific terms. Has 3 tenants(what the state is not like) Equality: we are roughly all equal in power, those who are weak in one aspect, can make it up in another.