CAS PH 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Compatibilism, Harry Frankfurt, I Feel Free
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Virtue ethics (what kind of person should i be?) Everything has a function and a thing is good if it fulfills its function. We are not born virtuous, but we become virtuous with good education early on and practice. Doctrine of the mean: the intermediate is good, deficient or excessive is bad. Acting virtuously: need to know the right thing, choose the right thing, act from a firm character. Theory is vague: do what the virtuous person would do . Question everything (old beliefs and habits, seemingly obvious truths, and anything that has ever deceived us even once) Doubt sense data (your senses have let you down before, ex: thinking you"re awake while dreaming) Solipsism: i can only be certain that i exist, not that anyone else exists. Formal reality: refers to things in the world. Idea"s cause cannot be less real than the idea . I am not a self cause because existence is harder than other perfections.
