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What is Philosophy? Why do we do it? What is Ethics/Morality? Thought Experiment/Hypothetical

What is Philosophy? Why do we do it? What is Ethics/Morality? Thought Experiment/Hypothetical Landscape - isms - metaphysics, epistemology. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?. Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970. “ Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don ’ t know. ”. William James 1842 - 1910.

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What is Philosophy? Why do we do it? What is Ethics/Morality? Thought Experiment/Hypothetical

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  1. What is Philosophy? Why do we do it? • What is Ethics/Morality? • Thought Experiment/Hypothetical • Landscape - isms - metaphysics, epistemology

  2. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

  3. Bertrand Russell1872 - 1970 “Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.”

  4. William James1842 - 1910 “…the philosopher is likened to a ‘blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there.’”

  5. H. L. Mencken1880 - 1956 “Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.”

  6. Daniel Dennett1942 - … “I can’t prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.”

  7. “Philosophy is a way to trip without doing mushrooms.”

  8. IMMATURITY

  9. Thomas Nagel1937 - … “Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.”

  10. What is Morality? What is Ethics? Are these the same question?

  11. Morality Descriptively: code of conduct put forward or accepted by a group or individual

  12. Morality Normatively: prescribing a code of conduct

  13. Ethics Branch of Philosophy that concerns itself with Morality

  14. Thought Experiment/Hypothetical

  15. The Landscape of Ethics Objectivism Subjectivism There is an objective standard There is no objective standard

  16. The Landscape of Ethics Metaphysics Epistemology

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