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Comp I Paper I
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About Friday night.
So on Friday night I went to a "spirit of god rave" or some such event. In spite of the fact that it was attended by individuals who profess to love God but hate church, it felt like a church event. The booths especially felt like a church event. Having attended many church and secular festivals there is a noticeable difference. At church ( Read more... ) -
The Day
It was another good day. Think I may have lost about 5 lb of water weight; unfortunately I’ll gain it back as I re-hydrate. :) Replaced five bathroom light fixtures, installed more smoke detectors than I can count, and read the electrical meters at the LC complex. Woke up by a disturbingly strange dream this morning, but once I got past the ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Final "exam" paper.
The movie Inception is superficially a movie about corporate espionage by way of entering someone else’s dreams and taking secrets from their subconscious. Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is an extractor. He is hired to plant a thought into Saito’s business rival’s head, rather than stealing one. This is a seemingly impossible plan. The ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Paper 5
“Whenever explaining how a philosopher’s most far-reaching metaphysical propositions have come about, in fact, one does well (and wisely) to ask first: What morality is it (is he) aiming at.” Nietzsche has managed to beautifully capture an issue I have raised several times in class. Based on Nietzsche’s writings and through my understanding of ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Paper 4
Hume’s solution to the problem of free will is a classic example of a compatibilism. His view is that the problem of free will arises from ambiguous definitions. He invokes two concepts: Necessity and Liberty. This is his attempt to remove the problem of ambiguity from the free will debate. For Hume it is a “matter of fact” that our concept of ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Paper 3
The advent of the Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation during the 1600’s gave birth to widespread uncertainty. This uncertainty manifested formally in the school of thought known as Modern Skepticism. This new and virulent form of skepticism rattled the metaphysical foundations of Descartes’ understanding of the world. Without ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Paper 2
Socrates sets up his speech in praise of love with a line of questions taught to him by Diotima as part of her instruction to Socrates about the nature of love. First, Socrates establishes that love must have an object of its desire. Next, he establishes that one cannot desire what one already has. Socrates then restates a bit of Agathon’s ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy Paper 1
As the dialogue Euthyphro opens, we find Socrates approaching the king-archon's court to stand trial for the crime of corrupting the youth of Athens. Meletus, the man bringing the indictment, believes Socrates' teachings to be impious. This makes his meeting with Euthyphro, a young man who professes to have special insight into the definition of ( Read more... ) -
Musings
Let me preface this post by saying that lately I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts on Philosophy, Ethics, Eastern Religions, Social Commentary etc. etc ( Read more... )