{"id":29,"date":"2023-01-13T06:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vorster.net\/jan\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:51:56","slug":"philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vorster.net\/jan\/philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Philosophy?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of the hardest questions for philosophers but literally in a nutshell it \u201cis the love of wisdom\u201d. This is a general concept but to get at this stage you will obviously need to be able to think like a philosopher which is a never ending process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Philosophers say\u2026.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt is thinking fundamentally clearly\u2026 about the nature of reality and our place in it, so as to understand it better what really goes on around us and what I contribution i to that reality\u201d-Barry Smith.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt involves being critical and reflective about things that most people take for granted\u201d \u2013 Alan Buchanan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPhilosophy is thinking that is obsessed with clarity\u201d \u2013 Alex Neill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, I believe it is like science to obtain clarity, very much being mindfully. Based upon good reasoning with obscuring the truth. Philosophy of the mind is more associated with psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metaphysics-The present time does exist, does it mean the past and future does not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When faced with a argument, we must assess the structure, is it valid or invalid and assess its premises if the argument is true or false?<br>This means the argument is valid if the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion or if the premises is true then the conclusion must be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Valid structure +true premises=sound conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Constructing an argument:<br>Premise 1: Husband remember anniversary<br>Premise 2: You forgot to remember the anniversary<br>Conclusion: You are sleeping on the couch tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this argument sound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, as the evidential claim can be true, it is a conceptual claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To analyse this we need to use conceptual analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thought Experiments.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientist carry out empirical experiments, philosophers carry out thought experiments which is an powerful tool for persuading people to agree with your position.<br>A good well known though is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ship_of_Theseus\">Theseus\u2019s ship<\/a>&nbsp;to read and evaluate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two major conflicting ethical theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Utilitarianism- Something is morally right if it maximises the total happiness in the world, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kantianism- Something is morally right as long as it treats another person as an end, not a means to an end.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting as an evaluation of the group was done to what category they are, all foreigner attendees were under utilitarianism and the rest whom were mostly seem to be New Zealand citizens were kantianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Philosophy? This is one of the hardest questions for philosophers but literally in a nutshell it \u201cis the love of wisdom\u201d. This is a general concept but to get at this stage you will obviously need to be able to think like a philosopher which is a never ending process. What Philosophers say\u2026. 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