1. FQ: Did Hume
believe desire or reason governed human behavior? (Reason)
2. FQ: Who was
Francois-Marie Arouet better known as? (Voltaire)
3. FQ: What book
did Rorty believe knocked out the enterprise of epistemology itself?
(Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature)
4. FQ: What
position did Rorty believe in? (Middle-of-the-road)
5. FQ: Who was
Pascal first educated by? (His Father, Étienne Pascal)
6. FQ: Who
created the Cartesian co-ordinates? (René Descartes)
7. FQ: Did Pascal
believe we should be closer to beasts or angels? (Beasts)
8. FQ: What
branch of mathematics did Spinoza use to explain philosophy? (Geometry)
9. FQ- What did
Pascal invent in 1642? (A mechanical calculating machine called the Pascaline)
10. FQ: Whose
method is, "don't accept anything as true if there is the slightest
possibility that it isn't"? (Descartes)
Personally, I think Bentham's idea for prisons is genius. However, when it comes to his ideas on happiness... I don't think happiness is avoiding pain. Sometimes, i think pain is necessary in order to get to a state of happiness or joy.
ReplyDeleteFQ: What's Bentham's idea about how we should live entitled? (Greatest Happiness Principle)
DQ: What does it mean to be completely happy? Is it the quickest way to pleasure without pain? Or is pain sometimes imperative?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr7p_5TjX8U
FQ: Who created the Greatest Happiness Principle? Jeremy Bentham
ReplyDeleteDQ: How do you achieve complete happiness?
Link: www.utilitarianism.com/bentham.htm
FQ: What was Kant's particular interest? (the limits of thought)
ReplyDeleteDQ: What is reality like?
Link: http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ LOTS of info.
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ReplyDeleteFQ: What was Kant's major work? Critique of Pure Reason
ReplyDeleteDQ: How do you know the limits of your thoughts?
Link: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/