Ethics Midterm

Who wrote “This is Water”

David Foster Wallace

Who wrote “Against Persuasion”

Anges Callard

Who wrote “Taking Ourselves Seriously”

Harry Frankfurt

Who wrote “Playfulness, World-Travelling, and Loving Perception”

Maria Lugones

Who wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 

Martin Luther King Junior 

How wrote “Thinking and Moral Considerations” 

Hannah Arendt 

Who wrote “Euthypro, Apology, Crito”

Plato

Main idea of DFW reading

Invisible realities, default settings, and real freedom and attention. People are naturally wired to be self-centered

Main idea of Agnes Callard reading

Philosophy as humanity, Aporia and its value, and knowledge as a collaborative means

Main ideas of Harry Frankfurt’s reading

Free will, differences between free will and free action, difference between desires and goal. Being at Harmony with yourself

Main ideas of Maria Lugones reading

Women can be both agents and victims of arrogant perception, and how this impacts their identities and relationships in society.

what is arrogant perception

having preconceved notions about someone, only seeing someone as their benifit to you/what they can do for you

What does Maria Lugones mean by “world traveling

Yoyr ontology changes from world to world, depending on the worlds perception, circumstances and your comforatability in that world

What is the opposite of arrogant perception

playful world traveling

According to Maria Lugones, what are the 2 types of play 

agonistic play & playfulness 

what is agonistic play?

The play you use in a competition setting, where the rules are predetermined

what is playfulness

play with no predefined rules or winning

what is ontological confusion

not understanding who you truly are

what is social confusion

not understanding/knowing how people see you in other worlds

Do Socrates and euthetrough come to a consensous on what piety is?

NO

according to Harry Frankfurt, is it true that the things we value have intrinsic worth?

No

according to Harry Frankfurt, taking outselves seriously means 

trying to make sense of our lives 

according to Harry Frankfurt, is reason is the ultimate source of moral authority?

NO

according to Harry Frankfurt, what does accecptance of our feelings and desires do 

it transforms their status, renders us responsible for those feelings and desires, means we are active (free) in relation to our desires and not just passive 

Harry Frankfurt thinks we are

able to distance ourselves from and externalize the parts of ourselves we disapprove of

According to frankfurt, are goals and desires identical?

no

according to frankfurt, do non-human animals have the same moral capacity as humans?

NO, humans are unique in their moral capacity

Who does Socrates talk to about the oracle’s riddle?

politicians, craftsmen, and poets

In the apology, socrates compares himself as

a gadfly that has awoken sleeping Athens

What is Socrates accused of?

Impiety and corrupting the young

The oracle at Delphi tells Socrates friend that

no one is wiser than Socrates, Socrates is the best teacher in Athens, and Socrates knows everything the gods know

How does Socrates defend himself against the charge of corrupting the young

He argues that to do harm to others is also to harm oneself

What does Socrates respond to the potential request of of stopping his practices 

he would defy a judgement that he stop practicing philosophy. 

Euthypro is at court to prosecute 

his father for murder