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Epicurus and Epictetus 71 and has an obligation to his fellow man. While the Stoic philosophy begins with a moral premise, it ha ...
CHAPTER 8 Aquinas and Descartes: Faith and Reason St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) St. Thomas Aquinas was bom in Roccasecca, Italy ...
Aquinas and Descartes 73 argued that there is no conflict between reason and faith. Phi losophy, he contended, is based on reas ...
74 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong only have to know the good to do it (remember Plato?), but man is i ...
Aquinas and Descartes 75 here; what if the politician was fighting a criminal opposition regime and needed the votes from the so ...
76 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong for human law, signposts that human reason can see are in harmony w ...
Aquinas and Descartes 77 movement, since the second mover depends on the first, the third on the second, etc. There must be then ...
78 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong Aquinas to show that Aristotle did not threaten the Christian’s fai ...
Aquinas and Descartes 79 possible in order to judge the truth or falsehood of each part. 3) Deduce from those few truths the imp ...
80 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong a way as to stand in need of nothing beyond itself.” God is the onl ...
Aquinas and Descartes 81 achieved. Therefore, he said that moral decisions should be made on the basis of the application of the ...
CHAPTER 9 Hume, Bentham and Mill: Subjectivism and Utilitarianism David Hume (1711-1776) David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotl ...
Hume, Bentham and Mill 83 kinds, original and secondary: the first are sense impressions, while the second class belong to the p ...
84 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong tion of compassion, but a general tendency to feel whatever emotion ...
Hume, Bentham and Mill 85 existence of God. Reason is too weak to prove the existence of God, he believed. Hume does not say tha ...
86 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong chair, encased in glass, and to this day, is on display at the Brit ...
Hume, Bentham and Mill 87 While it is obvious that this philosophy is concerned with physical pleasure, is subjective, and in la ...
88 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong and it varies only in quantity, not in quality. There can be no dif ...
Hume, Bentham and Mill 89 better to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied.” This statement not only makes clear the be ...
CHAPTER 10 Kant and Schopenhauer: Idealism and Pessimism Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Immanuel Kant was bom in Konigsburg, East Pru ...
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