tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post3848530065262030096..comments2023-11-03T07:07:55.456-05:00Comments on CoPhilosophy: Quiz W31/Th1Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-21426337081327094682016-09-01T13:40:03.525-05:002016-09-01T13:40:03.525-05:00H02H02Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-75741313163948237362016-09-01T13:39:47.251-05:002016-09-01T13:39:47.251-05:00Answering DQ: What's your definition of love? ...Answering DQ: What's your definition of love? Are you looking for your perfect match? What makes for a good marriage or relationship?<br /><br />To me love is wanting to put someone else before yourself, and doing it more often than not. I can't say all the time, because sometimes you shouldn't. Love isn't knowing someone, but wanting to know him/her better. Love is being there for him/her despite almost anything.<br /><br />I don't believe in a perfect match, but I think everyone still looks for one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-83386231634362409972016-09-01T13:30:43.951-05:002016-09-01T13:30:43.951-05:00I think philosophical progress is more unnoticed t...I think philosophical progress is more unnoticed than invisible. It's clearly visible, all over the world, it just goes unnoticed more often than not<br /><br />H02Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-20410511574438606322016-09-01T13:28:12.287-05:002016-09-01T13:28:12.287-05:00"Do you think a university education should &..."Do you think a university education should "corrupt the youth"? (Bear in mind the etymology of the word: from cor-‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break.’)"<br /><br />If going by the common use of corrupt, then I don't. If going by the roots mentioned above, I do. I see that definition as joining together and breaking the mold- always creating and discovering new things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-21896400875664692392016-09-01T13:25:16.803-05:002016-09-01T13:25:16.803-05:00H02 I agree with you, Bryce. The education system ...H02 I agree with you, Bryce. The education system is meant to make young minds curious and question things- make them want to learn.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-49685260056790459552016-09-01T13:22:25.152-05:002016-09-01T13:22:25.152-05:00H02
Do you agree with the ancient Greeks that a la...H02<br />Do you agree with the ancient Greeks that a lasting reputation is "the only kind of immortality for which we may hope"? <br /><br />Answer: No, I do not. I agree with the Pale Blue Dot theory- dust will return to dust. <br />However, this is no excuse to not make a difference or change lives for the better. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636669805483431072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-9890989315732931562016-09-01T10:54:20.895-05:002016-09-01T10:54:20.895-05:00(H2)
A DQ for everyone:
What do you find in comm...(H2)<br /><br />A DQ for everyone:<br /><br />What do you find in common with Socrates, if anything? <br />For me is the unquenchable thirst for knowledge and self perfection of the soul-to-body ratio.Pemohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17310738375035381508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-62641184629989057202016-09-01T10:52:57.432-05:002016-09-01T10:52:57.432-05:00H1H1Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-74578529952273647492016-09-01T10:52:48.795-05:002016-09-01T10:52:48.795-05:00H1H1Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-12782658963093120222016-09-01T10:52:37.403-05:002016-09-01T10:52:37.403-05:00H1
I agree. Doing our best to understand our world...H1<br />I agree. Doing our best to understand our world and our lives, our purposes, fears, and delights, helps us to be able to consider death in a rational light. Instead of thinking of it as the Bogeyman, we can use our philosophy to understand mortality. Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-84936040656194021402016-09-01T10:51:50.896-05:002016-09-01T10:51:50.896-05:00(H2)
Answering DQ: What's your definition of ...(H2)<br /><br />Answering DQ: What's your definition of love? Are you looking for your perfect match? What makes for a good marriage or relationship?<br /><br />I think love is: being selfless/unconditional and knowing you are not better than anyone. I am not looking for my perfect match, because I believe there isn't such a thing. I believe, though, that you can only get close to perfection, like an Asymptote in calculus. Explaining it clearer, in relationship/marriage you can only hope to find someone that matches most of your criteria, and vise versa for there to be happiness, if that is what you are looking for; to find someone who makes you happy with unconditional love. A good marriage, i believe, is found when both attendees are selfless, open minded and humble, along with being able to love our humanistic imperfections. You will never find "The Perfect" person, but you can find someone who shares most of your values and embraces the values that yall don't share. Pemohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17310738375035381508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-65740821749884909492016-09-01T10:47:19.496-05:002016-09-01T10:47:19.496-05:00Quiz Question (from Goldstein):
Why is philosophi...Quiz Question (from Goldstein):<br /><br />Why is philosophical progress invisible, unlike scientific progress?Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-35663590949481405652016-09-01T10:43:38.120-05:002016-09-01T10:43:38.120-05:00Quiz Question (from Russell):
Who was the first p...Quiz Question (from Russell):<br /><br />Who was the first philosopher to invent Dialectic, the method of seeking knowledge through question and answer?<br /><br />Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-38634565367709147082016-09-01T10:40:56.105-05:002016-09-01T10:40:56.105-05:00I think this depends on what you consider the mean...I think this depends on what you consider the meaning of the words "ignorance" and "wisdom". One of the points of the movie Forest Gump was that intelligence doesn't determine good life choices; Jenny was smart but foolish, constantly making self-destructive decisions. Forest was legitimately unintelligent, but made choices that bettered his life and bettered the people around him. Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-22228292444310076342016-09-01T00:08:28.034-05:002016-09-01T00:08:28.034-05:00H1 Reporting from our peripatetic discussion:
On t...H1 Reporting from our peripatetic discussion:<br />On the matter of the pale blue dot, seeing how small we are can instill a sense of hope. Seeing what we've managed to achieve in the face of our smallness can be inspiring. Yes, we've a difficult task ahead, not messing up the little bit of universe we occupy. But it's easy to look at our progress and think maybe it's possible.<br />On the Copernican Revolution, we talked about how more recent discoveries have actually indicated we're no less the center of the universe than anything else in the universe. It's a big idea, but the thought is, everything moves away from everything else. It always has, since the beginning. So there really is no one dead middle point, no still center, of the universe. No matter where you go in the whole wide cosmos, you will witness the growth of the universe in all directions. So we're not the center, but we also kind of are, and that goes for everything. Not sure how well I put that, but the question it raises is, does that make us any more or less special? Conner McCloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18180989597883472393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-14037880582619032822016-09-01T00:04:27.230-05:002016-09-01T00:04:27.230-05:00I agree with you! I don't think he heard actua...I agree with you! I don't think he heard actual voices either, but maybe it was his subconscious or even God giving him direction and purpose. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13866120024251722284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-40591096652494132582016-08-31T21:50:18.185-05:002016-08-31T21:50:18.185-05:00I believe that an ignorant person by definition ca...I believe that an ignorant person by definition cannot be wise, since the definition of ignorant is lacking knowledge. Then again an ignorant person could simply just question everything and end up causing someone else to rethink something and come to another better conclusion, which would be in a sense an act of wisdom. As an ignorant person can be wise, so can a knowledgeable person be ignorant. Someone can be knowledgeable, but not understand how to communicate with others or think outside of the box, then they too have become ignorant.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-45638668946088276072016-08-31T21:49:58.954-05:002016-08-31T21:49:58.954-05:00I think that that is a good point, besides idle ta...I think that that is a good point, besides idle talk, we really just have conversation to prove that we know something, or to learn something we didn’t know. Philosophical conversations could be looked at as a way to provoke another or put another down. Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-24768864876325177302016-08-31T21:49:26.870-05:002016-08-31T21:49:26.870-05:00In the sense that we mean immortality on this eart...In the sense that we mean immortality on this earth, then yes I agree with the ancient Greeks. The way we are remembered is our lasting foot print on society and once we’re gone there is no way we can change the way we are portrayed. If in the sense that immortality means the afterlife, then I once again agree. If there is an afterlife, and our reputation on this Earth determines who we are then it will determine our life after death as well. I guess you could say your reputation in this world will follow you into the next world.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-17399402553417231092016-08-31T21:48:53.858-05:002016-08-31T21:48:53.858-05:00I agree with Socrates that “those who think death ...I agree with Socrates that “those who think death is an evil are in error," because, in my opinion, death is not supposed to be something to fear or become troubled by, but instead something to look forward to. Being a Christian I have no fear in death because whether I’m right or the atheistic view is right I have nothing to lose, therefore I have nothing to fear. I believe that clear thinking, not to be insulting or rude in any way, comes through knowledge of God and who He is. So I suppose that clear thinking is in fact the most important requisite for right living.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-28276292676201020132016-08-31T21:48:35.674-05:002016-08-31T21:48:35.674-05:00I feel like we always overlook vagrants, but in re...I feel like we always overlook vagrants, but in reality there are tons of talent lost because we didn’t give them a chance. I feel like there should be more offices or shelters or buildings of some kind that work with the homeless and help them get on their feet and put them back into society. Maybe then we won’t overlook people because of the way they look, or their background, or anything else irrelevant in order to see what’s important, which is what they bring to the table.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-3697763363359740362016-08-31T21:48:15.234-05:002016-08-31T21:48:15.234-05:00I guess I would say that to philosophize is to pre...I guess I would say that to philosophize is to prepare to die, not necessarily because of everything the author said, but because it’s reaching a terms with what you feel life is. Once you define what life is, you in a way define death as well. I feel like if you define life as being a time to make a difference, an impact, or legacy, then you feel like death is just death and you may die, but what you have left on this earth will in a way keep your spirit alive.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-4550685109206393652016-08-31T21:47:38.337-05:002016-08-31T21:47:38.337-05:00I agree to certain extent, it doesn’t matter who a...I agree to certain extent, it doesn’t matter who asked the question as long as the question is answered and the idea is spread. But on the other hand, who asked the question is important because that’s where credit is due because without their questioning there would never be an answer or further exploration of the ideas or questions. So it’s almost like taking credit where credit isn’t due. I guess in a way it does matter how accurately Plato portrays Socrates because if he portrays him only as a “mouthpiece of his own opinions” then he could be misrepresenting Socrates and potentially contradicting Socrates philosophies.Arieanne Yates (H1)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01001684943929927965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-17655628813370968492016-08-31T20:17:17.575-05:002016-08-31T20:17:17.575-05:00H1
In response to the DQ: Do you agree with the an...H1<br />In response to the DQ: Do you agree with the ancient Greeks that a lasting reputation is "the only kind of immortality for which we may hope"? <br /><br />I've always hated that view point. If I'm dead and I'm in heaven, what do I care about what people on earth think of who I was? If I think that there is nothing after death, that it's a void, what does it matter? <br />The saying "We live on in the hearts of others" is even more irritating. A memory does not make immortality. Memories fade, and the people that remember us will die too. I know nothing of my great-great-great-great grandmother, and I assume that my great-great-great-great granddaughter will know just as little about me. That has no effect on my afterlife. <br />Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-54720699624705506762016-08-31T20:06:38.891-05:002016-08-31T20:06:38.891-05:00I'm in H1. I'm sure the suspense was killi...I'm in H1. I'm sure the suspense was killing.Grace Tiptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630734522820187785noreply@blogger.com