Foundatinal Debates In Philosophy

Question 1

Protagoras

Answer 1

Of all things the measure is man

Question 2

Anthony Harrison Barber on avoiding the problem with Plato’s reducto ad absurdum

Answer 2

Plato has “reconciled the one and the many […] it is one because it is an atomon eidos [the lowest species]

Question 3

Aristotle’s definition of a good life

Answer 3

An activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Question 4

Aristotle on the function of a man

Answer 4

The function of a man is an activity of the soul which follows or implies a rational principle

Question 5

Mackie on A’s failure to give proof of how to assess virtues and their means

Answer 5

This is to circulate to be very helpful

the air of indeterminacy persists

Question 6

Sidwick on the explanatory failures of Aristotles virtues

Answer 6

He only indicates the whereabouts of virtue

Question 7

Louden only virtue ethics

Answer 7

Virtue ethics is unable to assess correctly the occasional (inevitable) tragic outcomes of human action

we do not seem to be able to know with any degree of certainty who is really virtuous and who vicious

Question 8

Criticism of Aristotle’s inferences about the nature of the Universe - Russell

Answer 8

It would be fallacious to argue inductively from the state of the advanced sciences to the future state of the others

Question 9

Bertrand Russell

Answer 9

I should say that the universe is just there, and that’s all.