Intro Philosophy study guide 1

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Things to Know

Quiz 1: Ch. 1

· The three premises of Existentialism

· The parts of the Triad

· PUT

· The Ordinary Person’s Values

· Traditional Philosopher’s three reasons for rejecting the Ordinary Person’s Values

· The three means of overcoming the Ordinary Person’s Values

· The Existentialists’ values

· The two modes of argument of the Existentialists for justifying their values

· Review Quiz 1

· Characteristics of “necessity” and “contingency”

· The two “means” of escape from the “here and now”

· The three arguments against the first of the two “means” of escape

· The basis of the Existentialists’ rejection of universal love and respect

· Being-in-itself; being-for-itself: note the specifics from lecture

· Sartre’s “salvation”

Quiz 3: Ch. 3

· The three questions and their answers: Rationalism, Empiricism, Existentialism

· Plato’s Divided Line: The four “states of mind” and the “objects of each state of mind”

· The doctrine of the “great chain of being”

· Knowledge vs. Opinion

· The three claims of Hume

· Characteristics of the “human condition”