PHIL 3210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Thinking, Moral Agency, Human Nature

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3210
• Professor: Patricia Sheridan

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Phil 3210: women in the history of philosophy final exam questions. Two of these questions will appear on your final exam i strongly recommend you think of an outline for each question, so that your answers are as well structured as possible: following nature. For conway, astell, cockburn, and wollstonecraft virtue means living according to our true human nature and doing so as perfectly as we can. They all, therefore, promote a brand of perfectionism constantly improving and perfecting oneself in accordance with our natures. Should always try to attain our highest grade of knowledge possible. Because we are rational we are always striving for our perfect self. Conscience tells us how to act correctly: virtue and education. For astell, masham, and wollstonecraft education is the key to virtue. Human nature is distinctly rational and humans cannot, therefore, be truly virtuous unless we develop our capacity to reason well.