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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Final reports

1st of 2 blog post installments due by the last day of class, Apr 24 (but may be posted at any time before then)... 2d installment due May 1. Top 3 run-scorers don't have to do a 2d installment (but may, for extra credit).

Think of it as parts one and two of a single report, with part two including your reaction to any constructive feedback you received to part one. The two installments together should total at least 1,000 words. Emphasis is on quality, not quantity.

Don't think of it as a pasted formal paper, but as two related blog posts on a subject of interest to you. Use links instead of footnotes, include relevant graphics, video, anything that'll make it visually as well as thematically interesting.

Choose any relevant topic (check with me if you're not sure). You may continue to explore your midterm report topic, if you wish. Say why the topic interests you, and if you're discussing a particular philosopher say what you do or don't agree with in their thought.

Feel free to be creative with the format and approach. For instance, you might wish to "transcribe" an imaginary conversation between yourself and one or more famous philosophers.

Everyone should comment on at least two classmates' 1st report installments, and document that you have done so: include links to the reports you've commented on, in one of your own report posts.

Have fun!

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  3. Why do we Dream?
    Have you ever had a dream so good that you did not want to wake up you wanted to stay asleep forever to finish that dream out? We all have had a dream at least once whether it is a good dream or bad we still dream. Many people may wonder why we dream well there are many different theories of dreaming and why we have dreams. In my opinion we have dreams that are based on what we are going through in our life. About three years ago I would have this same dream that would occur every night for about a week and the dream was based on what I was dealing with in life. According to dream theorists , dreams that reoccur are usually connected to unsolved problems in the dreamers life. The reason I was having those dreams were because I was dealing with a problem in my life that need to be solved. Often times when I would have a good dream the night before than I would find myself forcing that dream to reoccur and it wouldn’t. According to WebMD dreams are basically stories and images our mind creates while we are sleep. Dreams can be vivid they can occur anytime during sleep. Most vivid dreams occur during deep, REM sleep when the brain is most active. When you are sleeping your body goes through three stages if non- REM sleep. Each of the stages can last up to five to ten minutes. In stage one is where your eyes are closed but if someone wake you it would not be hard for you to wake up because you are not in a deep sleep. In stage two is where you are sleep but you are in a light sleep. In this stage your heart rate slows down and your body temperature drops your body does this because it is getting ready to enter into stage three. In stage three is where you are sleeping the hardest you can’t hear while you are sleep if someone decides to wake you than it will be hard and when you wake up it will take a few minutes for you to understand what is going on. Sigmund Freud begin to analyze dreams in 1856-1939. He decided to analyze dreams in order to better understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. Freud believed that nothing you do occurs by chance every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at some level. Freud categorizes the mind into three parts the Id, Ego and Superego. The id is our pleasures desires and unchecked fulfillment and wishes. The Ego is concerned around the moral and self awareness aspect of the mind. The Superego is the sensor for the id, which is responsible for enforcing the moral codes of the ego. Sigmund Freud came to the conclusion that the reason we struggle to remember our dream is simply because the superego is at work. The superego is doing what it is supposed to do by protecting the conscious mind from disturbing images and desires conjured by the unconscious.

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  4. Free Will
    Free will is a concept which differs man from animal. Why do we have the ability to think? Why are we given the ability to question? What is the point in being able to think? This not only plays into life itself but also governing of people. Should we let people decide whats best for themselves or should a few decide. There have been cicilzations that could stand the test hav time who were brainwashed and blinded. For example Nazi Germany. The atrocities they commited against mankind are unforgivable and hopefully will never be committed again, but at the same time that had a "peaceful" society and there was happiness where there was obedience. Under the catholic church during the medieval ages, the unity of Europe was impressive and although it had its quarrels it was a strong and impressive empire. It was until Martin Luther brought his ideas of reforming the church that put Europe into turmoil and lead to violence. So what is the cost of free will and the ability to think for oneself. Thomas Jefferson, parphrasing John Locke, satated that the inalienable rights are of man are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That cost was many american lives to just found the nation and revolt against Britain. They could have sat back and paid loyalty to the king and peace would have ensued, but they thought differently. Why would anyone go through the trouble, violence, and killing of others just for the ability to think for themselves?

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  5. Jacob Maguffee12:39 PM CDT

    Jacob Maguffee
    James Oliver
    PHIL 1030-008
    04-24-2018
    Interesting Facts about Immanuel Kant
    Immanuel Kant is one of the most popular/famous philosophers who ever lived. He is known for many things. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics are only a few of the great things he did through his life. My group created a presentation for the midterm project on the topic of who Immanuel Kant was and what he did. While researching his life, I found many very interesting things about him that I did not input in the presentation due to not wanting to veer off path on something not related to the overall topic. I would like to identify a few of the interesting things that many people do not know and possibly some of the reasons he was as successful as he was!
    Some philosophers throughout history had a vast amount of wealth whether that be being born into it, marrying into it or following gaining popularity for their works. This was not the case at all for Immanuel Kant. His family were not well off when we was growing up and if it was not for a kind priest who offered to pay for his education when he was a young man, we may have never heard of Immanuel Kant today! When his father passed away, Johann Georg Kant, Immanuel actually had to leave his schooling to help his family financially. I believe do to his struggles financially through life, it is not too far out to say that he knew that he would have to work hard for a better life for himself and family. Thus triggering his laser sharp determination at a very young age.
    Almost going hand and hand with the last interesting fact, Immanuel Kant showed through his working life that he was in fact, very tough. When he received his doctorate’s degree after many years of hard work and even leaving the school for a few years to help his family get back on their feet, he had to work another fifteen years to receive tenure. Not only was the time frame longer than most professors at that time, but many of his colleagues did not support his teachings and were for the most part, unreceptive.
    It was not a smooth path to fame for Immanuel Kant who at one point was banned from writing or teaching about religion from the King of Prussia! Being the kind person Immanuel was, he obeyed the request until the King died where he then did not hesitate to spread his thoughts on religion.
    Throughout all his obstacles in life; not coming from a wealthy home, being rejected for the most part at the college he taught at, and even being banned from speaking on religion by the King, Kant never stopped and ultimately became famous for many decades and centuries to come. I believe Kant is a figure that many can look up to who may feel like the odds are against them to succeed in life. After researching his life as a philosopher, I can take away that if you work hard enough at something, no one can stop you from achieving anything you want to do!

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  6. Bola Attaalla #3
    God’s existence
    When I am answering this question of god’s existence, the hardest thing for people who doubt the existence of god to understand is the assumption of having a limited god. Some of the questions I am asked are; will if there is a god, then where is he? Again, having a view of a limited god, which is not the god that I believe in. Here is how I see it; the god of the bible through the old continuing into the new testament explains in details of how this world came to be and is described as the divine creator of all. Which gets us back to the question, where is god? The only way I can answer this question is by asking this question: the creator of a computer, do you believe he is running inside the computer shifting numbers and pushing buttons? My god, the creator of all, is not limited by time, space, nor matter; because that’s what the worlds limits us to. On the other hand, he is the powerful god who is sitting outside of the world because of his power over his creation and not because he isn’t there; just like you believe the creator of the computer isn’t sitting inside the computer pushing buttons. Another question asked as a counter argument to disprove the existence of god is, why is there suffering in the world? For anyone who read the bible this is something that is explained in the book of genesis, which explains that when man disobeyed god that led to the beginning corruption in the world. Which explains two things about god, how we are not created as puppets controlled and manipulated by god, but rather having a free will which allowed man to choose to disobey god in the first place. The second thing, is that corruption is not of god’s nature, but rather of his creation through their disobedience. The god of the bible, whom I believe in, is a loving & merciful god; who created the world and everything in it and allows for suffering to take place as consequence to disobeying him, as a loving father would teach his child. As Christ say’s in Matthew chapter 25, “For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick, and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” And replies, “‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Christ not only says to help the needy but rather that he explains that every good deed toward these needy “brothers and sisters” of his own, was directed toward him. Which shows god’s love for his creation, calling the needy whom people view as the lowest in society as his own brothers and sisters, and farther says that every good deed done to them was done to him too. In conclusion, the god that I believe in is not limited by time, space, nor matter; and is a loving and merciful god, and suffering isn’t of his nature rather that its of ours.



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  7. Iesha Hardy
    James Oliver
    PHIL 1030-008
    04 April 2018


    Why Do We Fear
    Regardless of whether you are a creationist, athiest, freethinker, evolutionist, or scientist we as a whole dread the obscure. It is by some plan, albeit nobody can appear to concur by what substance or component. Our brains have a tremendous certifiable file organizer of past encounters that it is always rearranging around to understand new encounters. While experiencing the obscure it is expect that wins on the grounds that our brains don't have a record to connect with the new tremendousness before it.Kurt Vonnegut once composed a short story called "The Dancing Fool", in which an outsider named "Zog" came rational to clarify how wars could be anticipated and how growth could be cured. The thing was, this outsider imparted by flatulating and tap moving. The night "Zog" arrived in Connecticut (supposedly), he saw a house was ablaze and as he rushed to caution the Earthlings of the inconvenience they were in, flatulating and tap moving, the head of family unit thumped him over the head with a nine iron.Sticking to a similar schedule each day and never addressing why you do it smothers the very substance of encountering this life. Given numerous shots, we so regularly keep the firearm on wellbeing as motivation to not miss, when in certainty the more shots taken will as a rule prompt a bulls-eye in time.Should you wind up on the overwhelmingly huge side of a specific dominant part then it may be an ideal opportunity to scrutinize the preface of why you are there with those other agreeable animals. At the point when obscure ends up known the time has come to gain some new useful knowledge.Numerous individuals don't have a vast enthusiasm for widening the tight chinks of their caves or opening entryways of discernment. Numerous individuals are additionally very substance to be figuratively shackled together watching shadows on the divider before them and trusting it is the entire of their reality. Thus, be cautioned, should you take a sledge mallet to your sinkhole or start kicking entryways down then people around you will probably regard you an offbeat and odd character, when in actuality you are nothing of the sort. Continue with alert. Moving toward the dread of the obscure ought to be moderate and figured like a mountain climb. What's more, after achieving the best return promptly in light of the fact that you shouldn't be there.

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  8. Iesha Hardy
    Dr.James Oliver
    Phil 1030-003
    30 April 2018

    Why Do We Wonder
    We human beings are curious creatures, and our interest drives a look for clarifications. So while this inquiry may fit unequivocally in the domain of science, it is not really restricted to the quest for researchers and savvy people. Indeed, even preschoolers inquire as to why, and surely may do as such to the irritation of grown-ups. However grown-ups try to comprehend things, as well. They need to know why their accomplice reacted irately to their demand, why the prepared was late, or why the climate changed so all of a sudden. By helping us comprehend our condition, clarifications give us some control over our lives. I talked with clinician Tania Lombroso at the University of California at Berkeley to discover more about the kinds of clarifications individuals need, why we esteem these, and which sorts of human thinking convey us nearer to reality.
    Pondering is tied in with engaging and investigating potential outcomes.

    It is about expectation and confidence. It can likewise be tied in with addressing and uncertainty . . . asking why things are how they are.

    We welcome great things to show up. We expect that fantasies can improve life. We decline to agree to less.

    "Hold quick to dreams," cautioned Langston Hughes, "for if dreams kick the bucket, life is a broken winged fledgling that can't fly."

    Our feeling of ponder - if fit as a fiddle - commends each wonder, each beauty, each amazement. We value the uncommon, the novel and the extraordinary. We crave the great, work to improve things and expectation that the hohumdrum weights and trivialities of life will be supplanted by something more otherworldly. We dream that we can rise above the everyday, that we can escape obscurity, fatigue and an existence without outcome.

    On the off chance that we are equipped for pondering, our mind takes off and hopes against hope. Pondering injects our scrutinizing and our reasoning with an otherworldly perspective. Kids discover that life can be substantially more than another block in the divider.

    My very own lot considering wonder was motivated by perusing Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder, first distributed by Harper and Row in 1965. As a rudimentary essential investing heaps of energy pondering about the imagining, considering and addressing of exceptionally youthful kids, I found that specific sections resounded seriously with my own impressions and contemplations.
    https://youtu.be/YFVS1kE8gFQ

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