Old school notes on philosophy – Divisions of Philosophy

Along with my econ notes I just posted I also found some notes on philosophy!

These notes are a bit modified from what I actually have written down to make more sense. Just like my notes that I posted for econ this is simply the basics of philosophy.

The Divisions of Philosophy

Metaphysics:

Questions relating to being or existence.

Epistemology:

Questions relating to knowledge.

Ethics (Moral, Social, Political, etc):

Questions relating to values.

Logic:

Questions relating to reasoning (Theory of correct reasoning).

Some of my old notes from Econ 1A

I was going through a lot of junk that had piled up on my desk and on my bookshelf this morning and I came across some old notes of mine from my first weeks of my Economics 1A class. Economics always has fascinated me, not that I really study it much, but the underlying concepts of how societies deal with scarcity of resources. Here are the notes for those who care:

Econ 1A – Macro Economics
The Ten Principals of Economics

How people make decisions:

• People face tradeoffs.
• The cost of something is what one gives up to get it.
• Rational people think at the margin.
• People respond to incentives.

How people interact:

• Trade can make everyone better off.
• Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity.
• Governments can sometimes improve market outcome.

How the economy as a whole works:

• A country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services.
• Prices rise when the government prints too much money.
• Society faces a short-run trade off between inflation and unemployment.