PHIL 1033- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1033
• Professor: David Cunning

Document Summary

Phaedo : the proper aim of the philosopher (101, star wars, episode iii. Perfection: perfect equality (112-113), perfect circles, etc, perfect entities are more worthy of our attention the senses, physical desire (101-102, popular culture today body vs. mind, mind-body dualism the afterlife as superior to embodied life . Mind-body dualism: minds are indivisible and intangible, and therefore they are not physical (116-117, 118-119). Minds have freedom over their choices: and therefore they are not physical the harp analogy (124). Objections to socrates: perhaps there are no perfect entities , perhaps we are not free, even though we think we are, socrates is cheating when he advertises the disembodied life as so terrific at the end of. 9. 25. 17: socrates on the proper life for a human being, mind-body dualism, perfect entities vs. bodies the harp analogy. Apology: a disembodied life would be alien and disorienting ernie from sesame street. Sartre on the importance of the expression of freedom.