When you know your final report blogpost topic please indicate it here. I'll ask everyone to give us a brief sneak-preview during our last class meetings, in roughly the same order as midterm presentations. The final draft is due by May 4, but post earlier if you'd like to solicit constructive feedback from the class in time to make final revisions.
You can continue to research and develop your midterm report topic, if you wish, or select another topic entirely. If the latter, try to relate it to something in Why Grow Up or Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life.
If you wish, I'll assign your topic or offer suggestions. I've posted a suggestion in the sidebar.
I'm not especially concerned with total wordcount, but I would like your final report to exploit the blogpost format by including more than words: embedded links and videos, relevant visual content, etc. Let me know if you need any instruction on any of that. It's really not difficult, as evidenced by the fact that I can do it. 😉
I would like to continue my final report with Karl Marx
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Hannah ardent
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Can I do Tractatus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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ReplyDeleteCould I do my report on Immanuel Kant?
More specifically Age of Enlightenment
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I'll be changing mine to a discussion between me, Pyrrho, Epicurus, and Zeno. The discussion will be a similar to debate style with the three of them trying to convince me to choose their philosophy.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to continue exploring the mind and philosophy of Kierkegaard. This time focusing less on his leap of faith and diving deeper into his studies of anxiety.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to continue my report on Karl Marx
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ReplyDeleteIf possible, I would like to continue on with my midterm project where I talked about Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteI would like you to assign me a topic please.
Section 4 I'd like to do my report on Friedrich Nietzsche as a whole rather than the Übermensch.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to further my report on Charles Darwin and talk about the philosophers that influenced him more.
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to continue with my topic of gnostic christians.
I would like to continue "conquest to happiness" from my midterm report. section 8
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I would like an assigned topic please
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I would like to continue my research on Beauvoir.
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I would like to report on the topic of presentism in philosophy- Section 4
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I would like to continue my research on Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Christopher Hall Section 7
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I have changed my topic to something along the lines of philosophy in astronomy and I am thinking maybe settling on Carl Sagan
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Prophetess Turner, Section 4
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Noah Salcido, Section #8
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ReplyDeleteId like to do my research final on Paul Tilich: Dynamics of faith
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ReplyDeleteId like to continue my presentation on kierkegaurd from my midterm
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ReplyDeleteIf I could I would like to do a report on Marcus Aurelius and his stoic views.
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ReplyDeleteI'll like to continue my research on Albert Camus and Existentialism
I know I am a little late declaring my report topic but I will be reporting on Noam Chomsky and his Linguistic theory along with his views on American Imperialism and his overall views of our modern world.
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Section#4 I would like to do my final on John Rawls’s Theory of Justice
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Manifest destiny section 7
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ReplyDeleteI am going to do my final on Jeremy Bentham's Felicific Calculus.
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E. Wayne Jones/ Section #4
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A Meeting of Minds: My Conversation with two Philosophers
It was early one Saturday morning in a small Tennessee town and my wife needed some Apricot Juice to make her famous Lemon Cake. Since she needed Apricot Juice, I needed to get up early and go to Wal-Mart—15 miles away in next town. I hopped in my old truck and decided to take the back way through South Mills Road down by Crawler’s Creek and get in and out as quick as possible, that was the plan. Upon arrival to Wal-Mart I noticed the usual crowd of people entering the store in what I called Pajamas. “When are people going to grow up?” I said out loud and I reached for the door nob to get out of my truck. That’s when I heard a squeaky voiced woman with a bit a Southern twang ask, “Why grow up?(2).” Nearly dropping my Covid 19 mask , I noticed a tan-skinned woman with curly black hair peering into the passenger window. Taking off her dark framed glasses, she said, “I’m Susan; you’ve been reading my book.”
Thinking I had forgotten to take my blood pressure medicine. “Have I lost my mind?” I asked.
“Oh no, I am quite real,” she replied, “do you think of growing up as a way of renouncing your hopes and dreams? (1).“Not really—I just see it as a way of claiming the responsibility, accountability that all adults must face. You know—like in the Bible—“When I became a man, I put away childish things…” (1 Corinthians 13:11).
“That’s a little ambiguous; I mean just what are childish things? “Do you agree that it takes courage to think for yourself?” (11) Do you think that quoting the Bible is thinking for yourself?
“It took thought for me to recall that verse if that’s what you mean. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get my wife some apricot juice; she’s making a lemon cake. And I just love lemon cake.”
“Sir, you never answered my question.”
“Mam it’s not about questions; it’s about faith--a Christian concept. I know you do not think like Christians think, so I think I need to go into the store.”
“But sir, “Is travel necessary when growing up?” (13-16)
“I don’t know mam. I just need to travel into the store.”
“That’s as far as you will go in life, if you do not have the courage to think for yourself (11).
“How do you know that is courageous? How do you know I’m not crazy, eh?”
“Sir this is a special day, and I have come all the way from my home in Berlin to talk to you. As you know, “Distracting older people from objects of desire …[like Apricot juice]…is slightly more complicated, but what ever difficulty there may be is compensated for by the fact that the things that can be used to distract us are nearly limitless” (9).
It was in that instant, that she snapped her fingers and a man appeared.
“Hello, Ernest, I’m John Kaag. You’ve been reading my work as well.” Before I could figure out if I were in a crazy dream, he continued. Ernest, Do you, “…realize how soon [you] will become [a] mere walking bundle of habits? (76) I mean buying Apricot Juice on a Saturday morning? Really? You could be doing anything and you choose this.
“Do you wish you had a Samoan childhood?” (WGU 27), chimed in Susan.
“Actually, I was quite fine with my childhood in Tennessee” minus a few uncomfortable times, I returned.
“I’ve got this, Susan,” said John. “Listen, why don’t you “practice yoga?” (91).
“Well, I’ve got a bad knee…” I started.
“Yoga can help you manage your habits effectively” (76).
I started to shake and he continued. “[You see] nervous systems, like our own, are not hardwired from the start (what fun would that be?) …” (76) Then in a manner straight from the mind of Willie Wonka he spun away in a whirlwind. As I stood there in amazement, I heard Susan say, “Here Ernest is your apricot juice. I must go now.” However, you should seriously take inventory of your life and decide when you were the happiest, and just like that, she was gone.
Can you post this as an author post, Ernest? Then you should be able to put in your links, etc. Just click on New Post at the top right.
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Art, in Schopenhauer’s aesthetic, would be any product inspired in the moment to the point of genius, His idea for the artistic process varied from Kant, the philosopher that Schopenhauer mainly agreed with. Schopenhauer refers to artists as geniuses, with their root process for creation being nature or human affairs. This creativity is aided by the genius’s imagination as well, thus giving the ability to put ideas in an actual, physical, perspective. One’s genius over time can unfold into madness. In “The World as Will and Representation”, Schopenhauer states,” every increase in intellect beyond the ordinary measure is an abnormality that disposes one to madness.” The genius will be consumed by what’s essential in their life, their art, which leaves them vulnerable in a sense, making it hard to deal with practical affairs. This can be easily perceived in our time now. The mental health of recent creative masterminds has only been worse deteriorated by drugs, which in some senses can help aid in the creative process, but can all be a huge hinderance to one’s actual life.
Schopenhauer did however see a hierarchy among the fine arts, with music sitting at the throne. Schopenhauer thought of music in the highest aspects because it isn’t a “replica of phenomena”. An explanation would the ability to feel emotions or be emotional from music. He saw music as the highest degree of universal language, a conceptual thing of feeling. In “The World A Will and Representation”, Schopenhauer states, “…when music suitable to any scene, action, event, or environment is played, it seems to disclose to us its most secret meaning, and appears to be the most accurate and distinct commentary on it.”
He compares melodies to being like universal concepts, different chord structures resonate with people differently but generally we can all profess the mood of a selection of music without any proper knowledge about said music. This makes music a very important point in the divine idea of Schopenhauer’s Will. Music would be a part of this will because it is an unconscious force that can move us.
Now like the other arts, it can be an imitated phenomenon, which does diminish the level of reality it offers us. Copying is just something that happens with anything and everything we can think of in life, but Schopenhauer heavily scrutinizes copying music. This brutally deteriorates the value of it (if copied). True music isn’t created by replicating phenomenon, it’s created by “stirrings” of the Will, as well as feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JamIJ2IQHe8&t=229s
References:
Schopenhauer, Arthur, et al. The World as Will and Representation. Cambridge University Press, 2020.