Philosophy Test 1

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dialectic

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dynamic exchange of ideas. to provoke education through conversation

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socrates

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Search for the truth. Care more for your soul than for your property or pleasure.Strive for excellence.
It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.
The good man has nothing to fear in life or death.

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according to plato the three parts of the soul are?

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appetites, reasoning, emotions

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what did plato say about the soul?

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the right order is justice, the soul knows truth so the soul like truth is eternal.

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what was the difficulty with platos view on the soul?

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the soul seems to need the body to know anything

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Descartes philosophy

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doubt everything. what cannot be doubted must be absolutely true. doubting is thinking, to think we must exist. we are thinking being with bodies a mental and physical substanct

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problem with descartes philosophy

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if our bodies are seperated as a mental and physical substance how do they interact?

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locke's philosophy

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The self is consciousness. what distinguishes you from me is that you are conscious on different memories and sensations then mine. there is only one substance physical and awareness.

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problem with lockes philosophy

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personal acts such as willing, knowing, feeling, have a specific nature that goes beyond simply being conscious and require a self to do them that is not simply conscious but capable of these acts, i.e. a person

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humes philosophy

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What we see, hear, taste, touch, feel is all that we know, all that there is as far as we know. You experience perceptions (sensations) but never your-self among your sensations, do you? There is no self, only a space where sensations are experienced.

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Problem with humes philosophy

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in many perception dont you experience yourself as present? its seldom a question of whose joy, pain or hunger it is you are feeling.

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Kants philosophy

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We have sensations, but they are not enough to give us an intelligible world of rational laws. The mind automatically supplies principles to unify sense experience and so gives itself a rational world. But these principles, cause-effect, relation, unity etc. can only be assumed and used, not evaluated.

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problem with kants philosophy

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cant we call things that are assumed into question and test them for their validity ?

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who created the phenomenological method?

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husserl

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what is the phenomenological method?

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put aside all your ideas and try to describe exactly what is given in conscious experience in unambiguous terms

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Merleau-Ponty

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you experience yourself not as a your body joined to your mind but beyound all conceptual categories, a body lived from within, a seamless whole, alive and aware. This is yourself or lived body- embodied subjectivity

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problem with merleau-pontys philosophy

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your body is still a living body type of the homosapian species(object) with a self from 21st century north america (subject). more correctly a compound, a unity of the two interpenetrating eachother, perhaps inseparably, but not some third type of being beyond thought

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Churchlands philosophy

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The investigation into the activities of the brain and the nervous system will one day explain all our interior acts in terms of neuropharmacological states and neural activity of different parts of the brain and nervous system. We are able to substitute neuroscientific concepts for the folk-psychology of belief, desire, fear, sensation, pain, joy. We should dispense with that folk-psychology of what in reality are simply neural events, since it is profoundly mistaken, a mythology of the non-existent self.

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Problem with churchlands philosophy

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The direct experience of your own acts is something basic, a unique evidence of reality not to be disregarded, but prized.

Personal acts have a significance that transcends the neurological event. Knowing a profound truth, and having the appropriate neurotransmitters firing in my brain to support that act have two different meanings which cannot be substituted for each other.