[PHIL 160D2] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 160D2
• Professor: John Maloney

Document Summary

Study guide: philosophy: mind, matter, and god. Golden rectangle: ratio of short to long side= 1:1. 618: pythagoreans: Irrational numbers cannot be expressed as a ratio of an integer (non-terminating non-repeating decimals: ex. It is approximately equal to 3. 14159265358 in the usual decimal notation. Provable in a mathematical formula, even abstract ideas: mind, matter, and god. Constantly changing (civil) laws defy knowledge and obedience. Atomists: democritus (460 bc: temporarily overlaps socrates, who was born in 470 bc, posits. Moving atoms out of which all physical objects are composed. Composed of the same matter or stuff. May differ individually in shape, but otherwise similar to one another. Atomists explain why big things are what they are: the way the world looks to you isn"t the way it is atoms make up bigger things reductionists. Pluralists: there are many things in the universe (thales, pythagoras, Heraclitus, democritus, and atomists: mind, matter, and god.