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Monday, October 1, 2012

Hakuna Matata Sec19 Group3 Hume

We started explaining the concepts of Hume's beliefs that you can not assume God designed everything. He disagreed with the design argument. We questioned weather he believed in God at all? was he questioning the assumption of design or God? We talked about the analogy of the scales and how we do not know what is on the other side of the scales. We tried to understand Hume's perspective on miracles... though in this part he started like a skeptic. We compared Hume's beliefs to the analogy of the watchmaker. Though Hume believed there should always be evidence before trusting in something.

7 comments:

  1. Our discussion helped me understand and be able to connect the dots on the different forms of skepticisim out there.
    Questions on Bentham:
    Factual-Does Bentham think the source of hapiness is relevant to the amount of pleasure?
    Answer- No
    Discussion- I dont understand how Felicific calculous can be used. what would be an example?

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  2. I am not in group three but I needed to post a question somewhere. I am in group 4, and we discussed minority rights. One question that came to mind for me was minorities still have less rights or different rights today? If so what is the difference between non minority rights and minority rights?
    Is it possible to achieve truly equal rights for everyone?

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  3. I would also like to comment on the topic of tolerance that Brown focuses on. While listening to the podcast Brown said that tolerance exist in everybody, but is that really true? Does tolerance exist in everyone, or are their people that do not have tolerance at all?

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  4. Our discussion went well I understand the Humes thinks there should be evidence weather if there is an god or even a group of gods.

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  5. Megan White12:06 AM CDT

    I missed Monday's class and discussion, sounds like it was interesting.

    Factual Question: What is Felicific Calculus?
    Answer: Bentham's method to calculate happiness.

    Discussion Question: Betham believed in the greatest happiness principle, to do whatever will produce the most happiness. He believed that you must tell a little lie if needed to achieve this and the ultimate ending would produce happiness, but the thing with telling lies is what if that person finds out? Even if it was a small lie it could turn from happiness to anger so wouldn't that defeat the purpose of telling the lie to keep the person from pain if the lie itself caused pain instead of what you lied about.

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  6. Trevor Broaddus9:56 AM CDT

    I thought our discussion on Hume Monday was very helpful. I enjoyed hearing my groups thoughts and ideas especially because this dealt with God which can be a very touch subject.

    Factual: How did Bentham and Kant differ?
    Discussion: Do you think that Nozick completely disproved Bentham's approach to morality in terms of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain?

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  7. Hume had an interesting point of view. In regards to our design. I thought it was interesting that he said we have no proof that just one God could have designed us and that maybe a team of gods did.

    Factual: What belonging to Jeremy Bentham is on display at the University College London to this day?

    Discussion: Is the best way to live to maximize pleasure? Or are our lives enriched by some painful experiences?

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