PHIL 223 Study Guide - Final Guide: Subsistence Agriculture, Antireductionism, Philosophical Anthropology

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 223
• Professor: Brown Karen

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Material: chapter 8: european philosophers of social science, freud & marx: They both produce theories that uncover deep, hidden meaning driving human action. They both understood their theories as scientific work uncovering causes (basically said this work is considered science because they"re looking at casual laws?) They are both perceptive: what ought to be the cause and what is the case. Ego: the reason, control, knows norms (ex. a boy knows that its unacceptable to sleep with his mother even though he wants to. Superego: internalization of social norms, desire to go along with it. The pleasure principle: people will act to please their immediate desires. The reality principle: healthy people will temper their immediate desires. Social norms that are too restrictive drive people to neuroses. Rosenberg says: because it is makes sense with belief desire psychology has an explanation for everything also diagnoses neuroses in cultural orthodoxies.