Philosophy
Personal identity
Mind/body Problem
Ethics
Ancient Greek Though
In philosophy, the question what makes up a person's identity is constantly asked, and explained by different people and their philosophies.
John Locke: Locke studies the human mind philosophy and our consciousness. He says that the consciousness is related to our memory and it is the ability of an animal to be able to think on thinking, and relate the difference between now and then.
Locke and Empiricism: He believes that knowledge comes from experiences and we know experience due to our memory.
Identity: According to Lock, a person's identity is the sum of his/ her's experiences plus the present counciousness that determines who we are and why we are so different from everyone else.
Descartes
1) Descartes reunites his ideas into things that he knows for sure.
2) He realizes we do not know much for sure, but: We are alive, we have the ability to think which was given to us by the heavens, and our senses have confessed us before so we no longer can trust them.
The Evil Demon: Is responsible for discieving our senses.
Metaethics
Applied ethics
Normative Ethics
Normative Ethics: Is a branch of ethics that judge the way we should live.
based on
All about decisions
Virtue Ethics: There are virtues or traits that makes up a good human being, we must find what those virtues are and follow them.
Consequentialism: The consequence of one's actions are the basis on deciding if its a good or bad idea.
Deontology: We have certain models and obligations we must follow
The basis of Ancient Greek though are:
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Ethical tradition on though
Science and empirical though
He was interested in categorizing living things
He represented
idealism
mysticism
speculation
Analyzed the impact of religion
believes surrounding greek gods
Meditations
A psychological process descartes used to gain knowledge on who he is, what is the essence of life. He though all the things he believes exists and what is their reason, he also analyzed the essence of identity and dualism.
Descartes was rationalist: The opposite theory of empiricists, they believed that knowledge comes from though and rationalization
Dennet, Where am I?
This fictional text is about this man who is undergoing a medical procedure in which requieres for him to remove his brain, that will function from a distance to control his body. Where is Dannet? is he where his brain is or where his body is?
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Felicific Calculus
Actions add up into building a person's happiness or misery. This calculus gives an estimation to weather that feeling is potent enough to be felt again
Intensity, Duration, Certainty, Propinquity, Fecundity, purity, and extend.