wittgenstein!!!!!!!

class taught by pre-law advisor kevin hill.

great class!!!!!  very on topic, very classical, very dense.

helpful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

free will determinism
kant
last class entirely kant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
respective domains

schopenhauer
next

polarities
to take what we already think about the world as having authority

vs.  futuristic
recognize things and people were misthought in the past

salvage common sense

some
no regard for common sense
plato wants total change

aristotle stasis oriented
metaphysics should reconstruct how we talk about everyday objects

kant
both
rarified natural science
how to do things for the natural scientist
moral common sense

a descriptive metaphysician rather than a revisionary one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

descriptive or revisionary