Intro Philosophy study guide 1
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”