| Phi 220 Fall 2015 |
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In preparing for the exam, secure your understanding of each of the ideas below. To be well prepared, you should
• understand each idea (or group of ideas)
• connect it with a philosopher, and
• be familiar with that philosopher’s basic discussion of it.
The actual questions on the test may take a number of forms. You may be asked to provide a definition of a concept or to explain a distinction. You may be asked to identify the philosopher with whom a distinctive idea is associated (or the philosopher who wrote a given passage concerning the idea). You may asked to write a short essay explaining a philosopher’s views concerning one of these ideas or to compare the views of two or more philosophers regarding these ideas. In short, while the list does not indicate the format of the test, it does indicate the material on which you will be tested. You can expect some freedom of choice in the questions you answer but not enough to enable you to safely ignore more than a few items on this list.
In formulating this list, I have chosen terms or phrases that appear in the text, but some appear more prominently than others. If, as you are studying, you have any doubt about what I have in mind or where discussions of these ideas appear, I’ll be happy to supply more information.
Topics
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Plato (1/20) • real bed / particular bed / appearance of a bed • user / maker / imitator Plato (1/22) • senses, reason, and measurement • poetry and the passions Plato (1/25) • narrative vs. imitation Aristotle (1/27) • pleasure in imitation • poetry vs. history • catharsis of fear and pity Walton (1/29, 2/1) • transparency vs. accuracy • counterfactual dependence Walton (2/3, 5) • imagined feelings • game world vs. work world Plato (2/8) • inspiration and love of beauty as divine madness • progression from lower to higher forms of beauty Plotinus (2/10) • beauty as symmetry vs. beauty as unification or “communion in Ideal-Form” |
Plotinus (2/12) • beauty in art / beauty in art objects / beauty in nature • non-discursive wisdom and pictorial vs. verbal representation Augustine (2/17) • progressive and occursive rhythm Danto (2/19) • kalliphobia • internal vs. external beauty Hume (2/22) • sentiment of beauty • standard of taste Kant (2/24) • beautiful / pleasant / good • disinterested satisfaction • purposiveness without purpose Kant (2/26) • subjective universality and necessity • common sense (= sensus communis) Kant (2/29) • dispute vs. quarrel • determinate vs. indeterminate concept |