Camus/Pascal
Life is absurd, and humans should embrace the absurdity
What is existentialism?
Cassandra hates him so much
Who is Descartes?
Rawl's famous text
What is A Theory of Justice?
A book which argues emotions are impressions not ideas.
What is A Treatise of Human Nature?
Test for determining if a machine has a conscious/capable of thinking like a human being
What is the Turing Test?
What is Pascal's Wager?
Mind-body dualism
A room of Chinese translations that make it appear you understand Chinese (but you don't really)
What is the Chinese Room?
People don't exist overtime, they are merely impressions. Personal identity doesn't exist.
What is Hume's take on personal identity?
Studying philosophical arguments through a neuroscientific lense; using knowledge about the brain to discuss philosophy.
What is neurophilosophy?
Camus' favorite Greek myth to explain the absurdity of life
What is Sisyphus?
1) God must exist
2) I think therefore I am
Descartes' two principles
A theoretical position in which no one knows their place in society, not their fortune/intelligence/etc, nor their conceptions of “the good.” Total ignorance.
What is the original position?
Events can be predetermined, and we have free will?
What is Compatibilism?
Patricia Churchland studies this condition and finds it is often connected to emotional religious experiences.
What is epilepsy?
The way to convince yourself to believe in God
What is practicing religious rituals until you believe in God?
I am because we are
What is Obuntu?
Each person had equal right to basic liberty, compatible w/ liberty for others
Social and economic inequalities should be expected to be to everyone’s advantage AND be attached to positions/offices open to all
What are Rawl's principles of justice?
Rational arguments cannot prove a deity.
What are Hume's thoughts on religion?
“From a scientific point of view, we can make no distinction between the man who eats little and sees heaven and the man who drinks much and sees snakes. Each is in an abnormal physical condition, and therefore has abnormal perceptions.”
Who is Bertrand Russel?
Giving up, or turning to the outside world to tell you how to live
What is bad faith?
You are made up of community, community isn't made up of people.
What is collective community vs additive?
Assumes people are selfish and impractical, trying to please everyone doesn't work
What is Rawl's opinion of utilitarianism?
benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness
What are the five principles of Confucianism?
logical techniques should be applied to to contain conceptual clarity, language is principle.
What is analytic philosophy?