Today in class we divided up the reading, between group members and philosophers. Also our next exam is a week from Wednesday, so we decided to all bring in about 10 questions for the review, as we did before.
Other topics discussed in group
- Where do ideas come from?
- Implications of nonexistence
- Definition of existence
My questions come from Philosophy Bites Back section on David Hume. It discusses why Hume was important to philosophy and discusses his beliefs on reason and God.
ReplyDeleteFQ: What did Hume relate the basis of scientific reasoning to? (Animal Instinct, PB pg. 103)
DQ: What are your thoughts on Hume's ideas from "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" about miracles? Do you think the advancement of technology changes anything?
Link: David Hume and his theory of knowledge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2qjVkMj6s
Today I got my questions from America the philosophical. I still find this text awfully hard to follow.
ReplyDeleteFQ: Which Rutgers University English Professor examined more than 3,000 specimens in order to put together his 939-page anthology of classic American sermons? -Micheal Warner, AP. 164
DQ: Do sermons have a meaningful place and purpose in the modern world?
Link:
Here is a link to Micheal Warner's reply to a review of his Anthology.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1999/dec/02/american-sermons/
FQ: Would Hume agree with the statement that: "Nature clearly appears to be designed by some intelligence. Therefore, an all powerful, all knowing, and all good God must exist." (No)
ReplyDeleteFQ: What was the name of Hume's Christian friend who asked him if he was worried about what would happen to him (Hume) after death. (James Boswell)
FQ: Would Hume agree that we should take anecdotal stories about miracles seriously? (Nope)
DQ: If we are indeed designed by the divine, are our souls part of the physical design or is that a separate process? Meaning, at what point, if at all, are our souls engineered if they are indeed separate from our physical bodies? -note: if dualism holds true, God must have some great IT guys because there probably have been some software-hardware incompatibilities in the history of existence.
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ReplyDeleteMy questions come from Philosophy Bites Back section on Melissa Lane.
ReplyDeleteFQ: What is amour-propre? pg.118 Is myself-esteem, my vanity, my sense of how others see me.
FQ: What the book name that Rousseau describe that the imaginary eduaction of a boy by a single tutor.pg 120 ( Emile published in 1762)
FQ: who used to say that Rousseau is society seen from the bottom up? pg.122 (Judith Shklar)
Link for Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education
http://books.google.com/books?id=CbglAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=rousseau+emile&source=bl&ots=Vzr96EhU60&sig=d-jRlUZo61Bouxz6VFtbXf6aupg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IP9sUNjkHOOq2gXn94DIBg&ved=0CDEQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=rousseau%20emile&f=false
Èmile Summary
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/rousseau/section3.rhtml
FQ: What economist taught philosophy at glasgow university and was a close friend to David Hume?
ReplyDeleteANS: Adam Smith
DQ: Why do we like to consider people who do not have much evidence of being philosophers, a philosopher?
Link discussing Smith's moral and political philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/
FQ: What did Rousseau's philosophy influence?
ReplyDeleteDQ: What did you think of Rousseau's political interpretation in philosophy?
Link: Here are some quick facts about Rousseau: http://www.biography.com/people/jean-jacques-rousseau-9465453