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Groves Honors Philosophy: January 2011
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Examining life and making it worth living. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Blog #41 - where do ideas come from? I wanted to do this blog so that it connects our old learning from the empiricism / rationalism unit with the new stuff on romanticism and individualism, with the movie, Inception being the bridge between the two units. John Locke wrote about where ideas come from in his. Essay Concerning Human Understanding. And they can drive us to distraction or do wonderful things. Works like this kind of idea...
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Groves Honors Philosophy: Our own version of Kant's Practical Postulates
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Examining life and making it worth living. Monday, May 20, 2013. Our own version of Kant's Practical Postulates. Immanuel Kant thought that there should be some things that we should stop arguing about b/c they're assumptions that cannot be proven, but in order to for an argument to move forward, we should just confirm them. They are called Practical Postulates and they are:. 1 Man has an immortal soul;. 2 God exists;. 3 Man has free will. 1 We exist;. 2 Space is infinite;. 3 Politicians lie;. 1 First, c...
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Groves Honors Philosophy: November 2011
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Examining life and making it worth living. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Asteroids, and what to do about them. I thought to myself, what if there was an asteroid / extinction event barreling down on us, what would we do as a people in our last few days, months, years? Phil Plait from TED has an interesting look at that scenario below:. Links to this post. Sunday, November 20, 2011. In Time - Extra Credit. For a few immortals to live, many people must die.". 10 max extra credit. Due by Sunday, November 27.
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Groves Honors Philosophy: April 2013
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Examining life and making it worth living. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Blog #62 - Reactions to Henry Poole is Here. Pick one of the following topics and write about it based on your own personal experience. 1 You can’t go to the past to fix the present.” - Esperanza said when Henry visited his parents' house. Agree or disagree? 2 Noam Chomsky said: "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss" 1. Or is she saying something else? Henry, on the ot...
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Groves Honors Philosophy: January 2013
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Examining life and making it worth living. Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Blog #56 - Interpretations of Inception. Here are several interepretations of the movie. Your job is to read over the blog and pick two to talk about. You don't have to agree with them: you can pick them apart with evidence from the movie. Questions to choose from ( pick two. Why or why not? 2 This blog from Moviefone.com outlines six different interpretations of the film. Whose dream is it, anyway? D Ariadne is Cobb's therapist tryi...
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Groves Honors Philosophy: October 2011
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Examining life and making it worth living. Monday, October 31, 2011. Blog #53 - Hanna and genetic engineering. The subject of genetic engineering / manipulation came up during. Though in an unrealistic sci-fi scenario where the CIA tried making super soldiers through invitro - genetic enhancement. But while this sounds like sci-fi now, there are a lot of things today that can be done that are NOT science fiction that are pretty close to genetic manipulation. What could you do to increase the odds? What i...
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Groves Honors Philosophy: February 2013
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Examining life and making it worth living. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Blog #57 - Nietzsche's Philosophy. According to French philosopher, Luc Ferry, the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche is the zenith or pinnacle of Postmodern thought. By this, Ferry means that Nietzsche tried to destroy two modernist convictions:. That is the last thing that. Of all people will promise to do. Don't expect new idols from me; let the old idols learn what it costs to have feet of clay. To. God is dead" - religion.