Exploring Identity, Knowledge, and the Mind: A Comprehensive Guide
Personal Identity and Persistence •Personal Identity: question of person persistence across time, even through change. Theory 1: Same Matter • Matter seems neither sufficient nor necessary for identity.
• Counterexamples: Matter “recycling”, and limb loss, normal growth. Theory 2: Same Animal • “One thinker” argument: Here’s a thinking animal, but there’s only one thinker here, so I’m a thinking animal. If I’m this animal, I persist when and only when this animal persists. Theory
Philosophical Concepts and Ethical Theories Explained
Aesthetic attitude: way of looking at a work of art, or at a natural being, in order to achieve an aesthetic experience. Aesthetic experience: experience that takes place when an individual is in the presence of an aesthetic object (be it a work of art or a natural object). Aesthetic judgement: judgement used to give an aesthetic quality to an object, according to how much pleasure it gives the observer that is looking at it. Aesthetic object: object that is perceived to have aesthetic qualities.
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1. Antropology (a general reflection on humandkind) states that human beings are multifaceted, and defines three areas of research:
> Physical anthropology is concerned with the biological aspects of human beings.
> Cultural anthropology studies human societies and cultures, and their development.
> Philosophical anthropology studies the origin and essence of human beings.
• The principle of cultural diversity:
No culture is superior to another. This helps avoid ethnocentrism and encourages
Responsibility, Conduct, and Ethical Theories Explained
Responsibility and Conscious Actions
Are we responsible for everything we do? Explain. We are responsible for the actions that we do consciously and voluntarily. Responsibility means that we must face the consequences and repair the damage.
Difference Between Conduct and Actions
What is the difference between conduct and actions? Which faculties are involved in human action? Conduct is a natural behavior driven by instincts. Animals hunt, and this is part of their conduct. Action is a complex behavior
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Accidental Property: quality that completes or perfects an object or being but is not essential.
Acculturation: process by which the members of a culture incorporate the features of a different culture
Anthropocentrism: doctrine that positions human beings at the centre of philosophical reflection
Anthropologic Dualism: philosophical doctrine that claims that human beings are made up of two realities: body and mind.
Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics and properties to non-human
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Philosophical Terms
Accidental property: Quality that completes or perfects an object or being. However, if this quality is removed, the essence of the object or being is not compromised or changed.
Acculturation: Process by which the members of a culture incorporate the features of a different culture.
Anthropocentrism: Doctrine that positions human beings at the center of philosophical reflection.
Anthropologic dualism: Philosophical doctrine that claims that human beings are made up of two realities:
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