Monday, September 29, 2014
Discussion 9/29 Section 13 Group 2
Today we discussed Machiavelli, ruthlessness, and the views of life being achieved on 50% of luck and 50% of success. Our main focus was towards ruthlessness in areas of war and how we would personally handle it if we were in those positions. If we were in a war situation and a kid was pointing a gun at us would you shoot first? If the kid ran through the crossfire would you attempt to avoid hitting them? How would you react in these situations?
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FQ: What is Descartes argument to the Illusion Argument?
ReplyDeleteDQ: Do you believe in the idea that we could just be brains in a jar controlled by an evil scientist? Or something similar? If something similar, what? Why?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWH00ugAeEc&list=PLXsqt73Oe3U4_UK179K3BgKDATmTDX9wa
FQ: What is the view that we can never know anything for certain, that there is some ground to doubt even our most fundamental beliefs about the world?
ReplyDeleteDQ: If one of your senses disappeared, like sight or hearing, do you think other aspects of the Illusion argument would be heightened?
Link: http://youtu.be/eejsB6PbaAk
FQ: Who has argued that the concept of dreaming makes it logically impossible to ask the question 'Am I dreaming?' while in a dream?
ReplyDeleteDQ: Do we agree with Thomas Hobbes' idea that there is no soul? If so, how do we distinguish active consciousness from our soul? If not, then is it possible to have any religious beliefs?
Link on an introduction to Thomas Hobbes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kwaOn0tFQ
Caitlin Bates
ReplyDeleteFQ:" ____has been dubbed the father of modern philosophy, and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings."
-Rene Descartes
DQ:
Do you believe people are incapable of not having a soul? To what extent do they have no emotions/desires?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes