Philosophy

What does it mean to be a person? (Descartes)

Are we just our bodies? (Descartes)

What is the self? (Descartes)

What does it mean to be a person? (Hume)

What makes a person the same over time? (Locke)

To what extent is it possible to act morally? (Kant)

Is morality based on reason, consequences, or emotion? (Mill)

What are Descartes’ key ideas?

What was a key thought experiment for Descartes?

What implications did Descartes’ ideas have for The Human Person”?

Descartes’ strengths

Descartes’ criticisms

What were Hume’s central claims?

What did Hume’s ideas mean for The Human Person?

Hume’s Criticisms

What was Locke’s central claim?

What is a key thought experiment for Locke?

Locke’s strengths

Locke’s criticisms

What is Kant’s central idea?

What is Kant’s Categorical Imperative?

How did Kant see the human person?

Kant’s strengths

Kant’s criticisms

What is Mill’s central idea?

What are key features of Mill’s utilitarianism?

What did Mill believe about the human person?

Mill’s strengths

Mill’s criticisms

What makes an action morally good? (Sartre)

What is Sartre’s central claim?

What did Sartre believe about freedom and responsibility?

What did Sartre believe about the Human Person?

Sartre key concepts

Sartre strengths

Sartre criticisms

What makes a person morally good? (Aristotle)

What is Aristotle’s central idea?

What are key features of Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics?

Aristotle on the Human Person

Virtue and the Polis (Aristotle)

Aristotle’s strengths

Aristotle’s criticisms

Is morality objective or subjective? (Nietzsche)

Nietzsche central claim

Nietzsche Master vs Slave morality

Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values

Nietzsche on the human person

Neitzsche’s Ethics in Action

Nietzsche’s Strengths

Nietzsche’s Criticisms

What makes us who we are? (Ryle)

Ryle Central Claim

What does Ryle say a Category Mistake is?

Ryle’s view of the Human Person

Human Person Implications (Ryle)

Ryle’s Strengths

Ryle’s Criticisms