VCE Philosophy 3/4

Meaning in Life — Susan Wolf

Notes from Susan Wolf

Main Premise of Susan Wolf

• Wants to propose other reasons to explain action
• Linking it to an innate desire to view our lives as meaningful

Beyond Good and Evil — Nietszche

Notes from Nietszche

Main Premise of Nietzsche — Beyond Good and Evil

• Nietzsche is examining what are values? instead of proposing a morally just way to live, as he is a moral nihilist

Gorgias — Plato

Notes for Plato on Ethics (basically Socrates + Callicles)

Main Premise of Gorgias

• Basically this whole discussion is Callicles laying out his view on what a good life is, and Socrates reasoning it to the ground (arguing that it is…

AOS 1 — Mind and Bodies

Key Terms and Definitions

Definitions for key concepts in AOS 1 — Mind and Bodies.

1. Consciousness

Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle

Notes from Aristotle on Ethics

Background

• Aristotle is one of the most famous Greek philosophers, along with Plato and Socrates born in 384 BC
• In Book 1 and 2 Nicomachean…

On Personal Identity – Michaels Meredith

Notes from Michaels Meredith On Personal Identity

TLDR:

Michaels Meredith in this piece does not really form a theory of personal identity but brings up two analogies as…

A Treatise Of Human Nature – David Hume

Notes from David Hume on Personal Identity

Background

• David Hume is an empiricist and a skeptic but also an atheist writing this famous meditation on personal identity in…

Of Identity and Diversity — John Locke

Notes from John Locke on Principle of Individuation

Background

• John Locke’s philosophy belongs to the traditions of scholastic, in an attempt to merge Christianity with Greek…

Sensations and Brain Processes — J.J.C Smart

Notes from Smart’s Essay on Philosophy of Mind (Physicalism)

Background

1. This paper was published in the 1950s and brings light to the theory of mind-brain…