PHI 1102 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Plato, Immanuel Kant, Ethics
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Everyone has beliefs about what is more true and what is less true about the world. Exams: everything prior to the midterm is general theoretical ways of thought. The second part is an issue-by-issue basis and applying the general theories. We cannot pre-judge which ones are correct so it therefor has to be a free-speech zone. Mill: he who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. Dogmatism: when you are never challenged in your beliefs. Morally simplistic relativism there cannot be any answers to a question and saying everything is just culturally relative. (undergraduate disease) It is inescapable, it is a requirement for *us all of the time. It is the one course in university that applies to everything all the time, you cannot live without philosophy. Plato: every time you make a judgement you make a decision about the choice you should make.
