Law

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...

Freedom

Freedom Freedom from what? government tyranny sin

God

God Christian God Epistemology of God Ockham warned that rational philosophy cannot presume to define a being that transcends the emp...

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

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...

Slavery

Slavery True Freedom & Slavery ὁ μὲν τὸ σῶμα λελυμένος, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν δεδεμένος, δοῦλος· ὁ δὲ τὸ σῶμα δεδεμένος, τὴν δ...

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...