This Friday- Review for final (highly recommended)
Written Extra Assignment Due Thurs the week of finals
- Painful Truth or Blissful ignorance?
o Truth or Happiness
o Freedom is associated with truth
o Is truth intrinsically valuable or only as a means to other goods
- Libertarian View of Doastic Responsibility- beliefs are private, No belief is immoral
- Religious belief
o Faith and reason
Irrationalist- faith is contrary to reason
Transrationalist- faith is above and beyond reason
Commensuralist- (Pojman’s view)faith and reason are compatible
- Religion is just a special case of theory building- not different in kind from, philosophy, science, politics, and morality
o Soft Perspectivism- People who hold values theories are in some sense locked into them but can change though interaction with other views
o Hear Perspectivism- people are locked into their own views and argument is futile
(Pojman’s view)- Coach Example- Bias- every call against his team is bad objective/impartial- give the same call any spectator would, even if his wife’s life savings is on the line
• Criticism- Hard perspectivism describes the way people actually from beliefs
• They should act accordingly to soft perspectiv