HLSC 3710U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Existence Precedes Essence, Immanuel Kant, Midsummer
20 Jan 2020
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Essence core properties that are necessary for a thing to be what it is: if a knife didn"t have a blade, it wouldn"t be a knife anymore, gives us a purpose essentialism. Absurdity search for answers in an answerless world. Thomas aquinas believed in god, but felt it was important to have evidence for his belief. Ethics studies morality or right and wrong behaviour. Moral realism any moral preposition can be true or false some things are just wrong and other are right: nurturing children is always right. Cultural relativism people"s moral beliefs differ from culture to culture. Sounds like inclusiveness and tolerance, however that means no culture can actually be wrong: nazi culture was actually not wrong therefore, think of the movie midsommar and think of other cults. Natural law theory god created the universe as a well ordered plan.
