Links to passages
Aristotle poses the question: How is happiness acquired?
Aristotle’s definition of virtue
Martin Luther King’s “an unjust law”
Martin Luther King’s “difference made legal”
Mill’s harm principle
Mill’s utility interpreted in light of humanity’s “progressive being”
Plato’s definition of courage
Plato’s definition of justice
Plato’s definition of temperance
Plato’s definition of wisdom
Plato’s articulation of might-makes-right
Plato’s articulation of the challenge to justice
Socrates’ daemon/voice
Socrates identifies with Apollo
Socrates on death
Socrates on “obedience to god”
Socrates on the examined life
Some Vocabulary
Ad hoc
Ad hominem
Ambiguity
Appeal to authority
Argument by analogy
Begging the question
Burden of proof
Conditional statement
Equivocation (in argument)
Equivocal term
Fallacy vs. falsehood
False dilemma
Infer vs. imply
Imagine vs. conceive
Logical
Meaningless
Necessary and sufficient conditions
Proposition vs. concept
Reductio ad absurdum
Refuting vs. proving
Soundness (of arguments)
Thought-experiments
Thought vs. thing
Vagueness
Validity (of arguments)
Validity vs. truth
Foreign words and abbreviations
E.g.
I.e.
Viz.
Cf.
A fortiori
Ceteris paribus
De facto
Erzatz
Ipso facto
Non-sequitur
Pace
Per se
Prima facie
Simpliciter
Sui generis