Philosophy Exam 1 TA Review Questions and Answers 2023
Section A: Short Answers
- Plato thinks that most of us are living in a cave, caring for and worrying about shadows, and missing
- Why are technological advancements in the speed, amount, and reach of communication in tension
- Aristotle thinks we do everything we do for the ultimate sake of achieving eudaimonia. Briefly explains
the freedom of being out in the sun. Briefly explain what he means.Free when you can discover things for yourself You are not free when you are just being fed information
with our capacity and opportunity for critical thinking?More technology = harder to communicate, have people already doing critical thinking for you. The easier it is to not do the thinking for yourself.The reason we have great works of philosophy is because the philosophers had to do critical thinking for themselves instead of finding somebody else answers Have somebody do the thinking for you
what he means.
- Aristotle thinks that our eudaimonia depends on the kind of things we are. Briefly explain what he
- Thomas Hobbes thinks we life our human lives in a constant prisoner’s dilemma. Briefly explain what
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means.Aristotle believes we are very different from plants (just live) and animals (closer to us, conscious) because we have the capacity to think and reflect. For something to be good and preform its function.You flourish when you preform your function well and reflect. When doing nothing just eating on the couch is like an animal.To be a good human being, you must think and reflect as a human being. Our eudaimonia requires us to use our wisdom and reflection.Virtue=wisdom=happiness Aristotle defines humans like a rational animal.
he means.Both prisoner’s think the same that they’re going to rat on each other and get an overall more time Narrow self-interest in nature to tell to get one to five years In a state of nature