PHIL 1204- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Murder: killing a living entity, intentional, malicious, lack of consent. The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Archbishop james ussher believed the earth was created in 4004 b. c. on. Ancient fossils cambrian trilobites are approx. Alan turing (cid:498)something can (cid:494)think(cid:495) if it(cid:495)s answers are not distinguishable from the answers of an acknowledged human(cid:499) Plato: 427-(cid:885)(cid:886)7 bc in athens, student and friend of socrates, wrote the (cid:498)meno(cid:499) Watson robot plays and wins jeopardy against reigning champions. Knowledge and reality class 2: socrates never wrote down any of his ideas, he always just talked to people, plato"s (cid:498)meno(cid:499) play with socrates as the main character about them. Plato thought socrates" ideas were great, so he wrote down approximations to his observations. Virtue is the power to acquire good things. Virtue is the power to acquire good things justly or virtuously. He claims that we can"t search for what we don"t already know.
