Meditation I
The method that Descartes will use to find foundational truth
What is the method of doubt?
"I am, I exist"
What is the cogito?
The only thing that has intrinsic value
What is the good will?
"All our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones"
What is the copy principle?
They have experienced higher and lower pleasures, and would choose higher pleasures
Who are competent judges?
They have sometimes deceived him in the past, so it would be wise not to trust them completely
What are the senses?
He inspired Descartes when he said: "give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth."
Who is Archimedes?
It produces a perfect duty
What is a contradiction in conception?
Hume's counterexample to the copy principle
What is the Missing Shade of Blue?
The term given to Utilitarianism by people who think it would lead to debauchery, where people are only thinking about having a good time
What is swine morality?
What Descartes is sometimes doing when he thinks he's sitting by the fire in his winter dressing gown
What is dreaming?
The principle that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect
What is the causal adequacy principle?
The principle behind your action
What is a maxim?
The distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact
What is Hume's fork?
It's better to be him dissatisfied than a fool satisfied
Who is Socrates?
He might be deceiving Descartes for his own entertainment
What is the malicious demon?
A perception that is present and accessible to an attentive mind, and sharply separated from all others
What is a clear and distinct perception?
It is produced when there is a contradiction in the will
What is an imperfect duty?
He wouldn't know that water could drown him or fire could burn him
Who is Adam?
The criticism that utilitarian can justify a large group overriding the interests of a smaller group
What is the tyranny of the majority?
The type of knowledge that survives the dreaming argument
What is a priori?
Descartes' key argument for the existence of God
What is the Trademark argument?
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end"
What is the second formulation of the categorical imperative?
There is no non-circular way to justify inductive inferences
What is the problem of induction?
Roger Crisp criticised utilitarianism by asking if we would choose the life of Joseph Hadyn or this
What is an oyster?