Yep, these are legit Mendelssohn's daughters. I've read so much of their work evidently. Emily is my favorite. Shut up Anne! No one cares about you! Jane is just a bitch. I assume Branwell just decided to paint himself out because of Jane's super bitchiness. Oh, I wrote a long ass book, this makes me more prolific than all of you bitches! Ooooooooookay Jane, I paint myself out now.
I will post the two factual questions and discussion question that were commented on the Voltaire post from myself and Shannon respectively over Mendelssohn's daughters.
First the factual questions:
Factual:
T/F Henriette, the youngest of Mendelssohn's daughters, defied her father's wishes and never married.
True
Factual Question:
T/F - All three of Mendelssohn's daughters ended up converting to Christianity?
Answer: True
And the Discussion questions:
Do you find that one can be fully engaged in religious questions but step away from tradition, from religion itself, and from the constraints of religious morality as Dorothea and Schlegel did?
What do you think about this quote? "You may remain faithful to an oppressed, persecuted religion, you may leave it to your children as a prospect of life-long martyrdom, as long as you believe it to be an absolute truth. But when you have ceased to believe that, it is barbarism." Does it hold any validity - for Judaism, for that time period, and for present day - or is it too extreme a statement?
First the factual questions:
Factual:
T/F Henriette, the youngest of Mendelssohn's daughters, defied her father's wishes and never married.
True
Factual Question:
T/F - All three of Mendelssohn's daughters ended up converting to Christianity?
Answer: True
And the Discussion questions:
Do you find that one can be fully engaged in religious questions but step away from tradition, from religion itself, and from the constraints of religious morality as Dorothea and Schlegel did?
What do you think about this quote? "You may remain faithful to an oppressed, persecuted religion, you may leave it to your children as a prospect of life-long martyrdom, as long as you believe it to be an absolute truth. But when you have ceased to believe that, it is barbarism." Does it hold any validity - for Judaism, for that time period, and for present day - or is it too extreme a statement?
I am going to try to answer this question to the best of my abilities and understandings. I believe that it is too extreme of a question. Any religion that is oppressing and persecutes its people is absurd because it is based off of fear. I find it extreme and somewhat hypocritical that not believing in an enslaving religion is barbaric.
ReplyDeleteAuguste Compte:
Factual Question:
Which of the following was not one of Comte's three stages of history?
a) Theological Stage
b) Negative Stage
c) Metaphysical Stage
d) Positive Stage
(Answer is b) Negative Stage)
Discussion Question: Do you agree with Comte's idea that atheists are too interested and focused on "holding up an empire of Reason?" Do you think he believed that theists rejected reason?
I'll answer Tim's question (while ignoring his Mendelssohn sisters ramblings...)
ReplyDeleteI think you can only engage in religious questions if you're well-researched in the topic. Arguing for or against ideas for which you have no understanding of the origin is just asking to dig your own shallow hole. But if you have studied religion and subsequently stepped away from its teaching, traditions, and moral constraints, I still think you can question and criticize its existence or whatever you find in it that unsettles you, as Dorothea and Schlegel seemed to have done by turning to Romanticism.
Comte Questions:
Factual: Which populist, deeply secular, anti-religious "religion" is Comte attributed to have pitched?
A - Agnosticism
B - Positivism
C - Atheism
D - Social Darwinism
Discussion Question:
Do you agree that asking the philosophical question of "how?" over "why?" will yield more useful answers or theories?
That picture is legit.
ReplyDeleteI will answer my question I suppose.
I think that it is entirely possible to engage in a religious topic/questions if you realize the views held by those followers of the religion and are well versed in what the religion preaches. By doing this, you can bring in other philosophies and beliefs and apply them to that religion and compare and contrast.
Yay! Back to Frenchies! Comte! I love him.
T/F Auguste Comte coined the term sociology?
True!
Discussion question:
Do you agree with Comte's idea that society undergoes three phases, which are the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive, in its quest for the truth according to a general 'law of three stages'?
I will answer Tim's question.
ReplyDeleteI think it is possible. As Shannon said, it would be much better to be educated about the religious topic being questioned, but anyone can engage in religious questioning without following tradition or being restrained by religious morality. Knowing more about the religion just makes your questioning much more credible.
Comte
True or False? Auguste Comte fully identified with atheists. (False)
Do you think Comte's belief in a need for sociology was reflected in any way in his distaste for atheism? How can these two concepts be related?