Death, Lying & Socrates
This thinker was sheltered from the reality of death until he was about 29 years old.
Who is The Buddha (or Siddhartha Gautama)?
Deductive arguments are arguments such that the premises have this relationship to the conclusion.
What is "the premises guarantee/necessarily lead to the conclusion"?
If I have the proper form of a deductive argument, as well as true premises, I have this kind of argument.
What is a sound argument?
What is epistemology?
This saying by Socrates can be said in some ways to be the opposite of "ignorance is bliss".
What is "The unexamined life is not worth living?"
In this type of argument, no matter how strong it is, it is still possible to have true premises and a false conclusion.
What is an inductive argument?
Since we "sign up" for the deception by these people for entertainment purposes, their work would not fall under "propaganda".
Who are magicians? (you may reference television and other examples, too)
These are the three most influential philosophical traditions in our global approach to philosophy.
What is Chinese, Indian, and Western philosophical traditions.
This is what made Socrates wiser than his fellow Athenians.
What is he knew his own ignorance?
The following is this type of argument: "If I teach philosophy, I will offend somebody. I did not offend anybody on Sunday. Therefore, I did not teach philosophy on Sunday."
What is deductive (conditional) argument?
If I have a deductive argument with a false conclusion, I know that at least one of these two things had to go wrong.
What is (1) the argument is not valid, or (2) at least one premise is false.
This major method in philosophy gives objectivity to philosophy and allows for justification of claims (this justification is necessary in philosophy).
What is reason/rational justification/logic?
This thinker absolutely prohibits all lying.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The following is this form of argument: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know which one you are going to get, but it all turns out good."
What is argument from analogy (or, generally, an inductive argument)?
"I have seen three dogs in my lifetime, and they were all yappy. Therefore, all dogs are probably yappy." This is a way to try to improve my argument...
What is to meet or research on more dogs, and see if they too are yappy (this would confirm my generalization--not prove it!), compare types or sizes of dogs or describe the breeds I've seen (it may be that only some small breeds are yappy), or show one that isn't (which would actually refute it)?
This set of texts (part of a larger whole) appears to be the earliest philosophy that we have in our possession.
What is the Upanishads?
These are some reasons why the charges that he was a sophist and that Socrates was a natural philosopher were all false.
Some answers: (1) Definitely not a sophist: he didn't charge, he taught wisdom and not the art of winning arguments, and he seeked the virtuous soul and good life, not political gain. (2) He didn't teach about natural philosophy at all, and claimed to be too incompetent at matters of natural science to hypothesize about them.
This is how you would defend both calling out deceptive means of persuasion and developing critical and logical thinking skills.
What is...(we never accepted it as a public, propaganda causes us to think and act in ways we wouldn't otherwise, the things we are deceived about are not very good for us in many cases, we prefer to be informed before making decisions and to make better decisions, we can be good models for the rest of the public...)
Use two fallacies to convince me to quit my job and become a public gadfly.
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A guy is suing his parents for making him. Make this philosophical!
(depends on student)