PP110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nicomachean Ethics, Physical Attractiveness, John Stuart Mill
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Philosophers studied: plato, aristotle, immanuel kant, john stuart mill. Wrote the story of the ring of gyges which were what inspired the lord of the rings series. Plato: features of the forms: objective (exist independently of our minds), transcendent (beyond space and time), eternal, intelligible (not senses, only intellect), archetypal (models), perfect. Plato"s conception: world of forms (being-ideas) vs the world of flux (becoming-things) - plato"s metaphysical hierarchy, forms: good values (truth, beauty, justice), abstract concepts (triangles), things (sensible objects and images) Copy: there exists only one of everything - the perfect forms exist where, in the world of forms, ideas that are determined to be perfect and unchanging, therefore making it ideal. Innate ideas: plato believed that we are born with innate ideas that we can just remember instead of learning. Plato description: plato was a greek philosopher who was a mathematician and writer of philosophy. Academy in athens, was taught by socrates and taught aristotle.
