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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Group 4 Section 16

We had Robert Ingersoll as our topic on Wednesday (continuing our streak of having philosophers with cool sounding names). Hecht didn't have much to say about Ingersoll except that he had a great nickname "The Pagan Prophet". I did do some outside research on Ingersoll and it was quite sketchy also but I did learn a few interesting nuggets about Ingersoll. One Ingersoll was BFFs with Walt Whitman but what I learned that was on topic was that he is largely responsible for the annihilation of the blasphemy laws in the United States.(For those wondering why I have used Ingersoll's name so much its for my amigos playing the philosopher drinking game. By the way thats six shots so far.) Ingersoll's quote“Let us be honest…. Let us have the courage and the candor to say: We do not know.” is the basis for our factual question which is:





Who Said “Let us be honest…. Let us have the courage and the candor to say: We do not know.”

A. Hobbes
B. Rousseau
C. Paine

D. Ingersoll

and our discussion question was:

My mind is weak and I can't remember help.

"See you Monday. We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse.” - Good Will Hunting. One of my favorite movie quotes and very applicable to this situation.

3 comments:

  1. I'm having a hard time remembering our discussion question from Wednesday, too. I guess it wasn't that great of a question or discussion.

    So Freud obviously didn't like religion, especially the Catholicism, seeing it as "repressive" to it's believers.
    Freud's book The Future of Illusion had a message that illusion was different from error; "it is willful error". He further explained that religion was a "willful error", because people wanted the consolations of God, heaven, etc.

    Factual question:
    Who said, "Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense."

    Answer:
    Freud

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  2. I'm having a lapse in memory as well about our discussion on Ingersoll. I just really loved his quote about not knowing and I used that to baffle a couple of my coworkers this weekend haha. We can theorize and believe and have all the faith we want be ultimately, we simply do not know. And that's okay with me.

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  3. but* forgive me, it's monday.

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