Thinking and Consideration Philosophy PDF

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Based on two given readings: Thinking and Moral Consideration and Plato Apology...

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Thinking and Moral Consideration  The banality of evil-The phenomenon of evil deeds committed on a gigantic scale.  Nazi person Is being trialed for his role in the Nazi regime for train schedule, but never personally killed someone  Absence of thinking  Evil doings is based on “base motives”  Frequently used words protect us against reality  All events and facts arouse by the meaning of their existence  A good conscience does not exist except as the absence of a bad one  Any thought that we can do to protect us from committing an act of evil.  Thinking and judging  in order to know what justice is you must know what knowledge is. And in order to know knowing you must have a previous notion of knowledge  Asking questions he does not know sets things to motion  Ideas are perceivable only by the eyes of the mind  A word can have so many abstract meaning, house can be used in the sense of a tent, tut, palace, village and more.  Our eyes perceive something less tangible  The word house could not exist unless one presupposes thinking about being housed, dwelling, having a house. A word has so many meanings.  Medieval philosophy- mediation- the word should be heard as different from contemplating (thinking).  Socrates-believed that talking and thinking about piety, justice, courage, and the rest were liable to make men more pious (religious). Wanted to know what justice, piety (religious) and goodness was. This is a model of someone that thinks  Thinking inevitably has a destructive undermining affect on all establish criteria values measurements for good and evil and in short on those customs and rules of conduct we treat of in morals and ethics.  Inability or refusal to think and capacity of doing evil  People filled with eros (love) with desire of love wisdom, curiosity are left with Plato’s noble nature which is same as Socrates  Plato- The sad truth of the matter is the most evil is done by people who never made up their mind to either bad or good

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Socrates does not apology Apologia means a defense speech in a legal proceeding Socrates offended the god for impiety Socrates is trialed for the questioning of your above and below Earth and teaches these things to others. He’s corrupting the young The god wants us to be good But he doesn’t recognize the gods He uses his direct and honest answers to try and defend himself He consider himself wise in the sense that he knows nothing He studying or thinking more and it’s getting people upset He makes things into stronger arguments and teaches it to others Persuading the young Wisdom did this...