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Freedom from what?
City
City How valuable is a city? what benefits & drawbacks does it provide? a city allows for greater Division of Labor th...
Common Sense
Common Sense What is the nature of common sense? Is it the same thing as [[Intuition]]? can common sense contradict itself? [[Common ...
Divine Right of Kings
Divine Right of Kings King is appointed directly by God. Thus, king is answerable to God alone & to no earthly authority (not even Pa...
Electoral College
Electoral College its as important for a candidate to appeal to a broad spectrum of people as it is to appeal to a greater # of people
Feudal System
Feudal System In Middle Ages, social structure was King -> Nobles -> Knights -> Peasant. Each class received protection and prov...
God
God Christian God Epistemology of God Ockham warned that rational philosophy cannot presume to define a being that transcends the emp...
Goodness
Goodness Disjointed Thoughts obligations vs living well not just following rules, trying to reach God's design do we need God to be...
Great Chain of Being
Great Chain of Being There are different levels of existence. God Universe Man (King -> Nobles ->...
Hate
Hate I don't have to hate them to protect myself against their ideas. - while driving w Kate
Infinity
Infinity Summary
Intuition
Intuition [[Hume]] speaks of intuitive custom being what allows us to understand cause/effect & connect ideas. (See [[Hume, Enquiry ...
Justice
Justice What is the difference between justice & fairness? He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require ...
Knowledge
Knowledge Is certainty a good criterion for knowledge? [[Descartes]] thought so, but [[Reid]] didn't Is epistemology an intellectual...
Language
Language [[Reid]]'s Opinion on Language "By language I understand all those signs which mankind use in order to communicate to others th...
Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts Why it's important: "If, therefore, anyone wishes to search out the truth of things in serious earnest, he ought not to sele...
Morals
Morality Where does morality come from? leviathan makes the laws? (wrong = illegal) [[Hobbes]] emotions? (wrong = I feel bad) div...
Ockham's Razor
Ockham's Razor It is "sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the best one." The idea is frequently at...
Order vs Chaos
Order vs Chaos Is all philosophy just trying to find the order in our world? There is a scale between order and chaos What is chaos? ...
Philosophy
Philosophy How the Great Conversation works: [[Great Conversation]] Abuse of power often leads to philosophical change When reading a p...
Prophecy in Matthew
Prophecy in Matthew %% an in-depth look at prophecy in Matthew %% ################## Matt 1:22-23 Now all this took place to fulfill wh...
Propoganda
Propoganda Potential def from Eliot: using selective information to prepare people emotionally for an action (based on Jacque Ellul) fe...
Reason
Reason reason is the "natural light" [[Descartes]] what is the difference b/t reason & thinking? what is thinking? ...
Rights
Rights Definition:an obligation that the society/one who bestowed the right has to me; individual-focused what is the origin of a right?...
Science
Science Philosophical Camps of Science Camp #1: A scientific theory cannot be true because no theory can establish the true nature of...
Self-Interest
Sense Perception
Sense Perception You can be good at sensing w/o being able to explain how. You can be skilled in using your senses & have them still...
The Forms
Plato's Forms form: an eternal archetype (or Idea) that forms the world & also stands beyond it e.g. if something is beautiful, it i...
Truth
Truth "What is truth?" - Pontius Pilate "As for certain truth, no man has known it, nor will he know it." - Xenophanes How to choos...
Will
Will Notes
Demosthenes
Demosthenes Dates: 384-322 BC Britannica link political speechmaker in Ancient Greece Idealized Athens, and sought to maintain her s...
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