[PHI1103] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 28 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Is not as obviously useful: contrast between practical temperament and philosophical one, practical is only concerned with material needs, philosophical thinks greater, positive statement about what the value of philosophy is, unsettles our prejudices, enlarges us, cultivates virtue of impartiality. Descartes believed a distinction existed between reality and appearance. Thought experiment: flying/ floating man argument in the book of the soul or. Image a man full formed, created in a void, with all his limbs not touching. He will have a sense of his own self existence. He will have have no sense of limbs/ organs (body) or any external reality. He will affirm himself, but no awareness of self as distinct from anything else. If you can be aware of the self and not the body, then the self and the body are separate/ can be separated: conceptual separation of the mind and the body. Self-consciousness is not consciousness of the body.
