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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Questions Apr 15

Prolog, ch1

  • Prior to this semester had you heard of William James?
  • Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?
  • Do you ever feel "divided"? (Are you a polymath like WJ? Or "philosophically stuck"?) 2
  • Do you know any "sick souls"? 3 Or "healthy minds"? 4 Are they the same person? 
  • Do you agree that believing life to be worth living "will help create the fact"? 5
  • Do you like WJ's answer to the question "Is life worth living?" 9
  • Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"? 10

Wm James Hall 

Map of William James's Cambridge... 

  • Do you agree with Jennifer Michael Hecht? “None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self will experience. History and philosophy ask us to remember these mysteries, to look around at friends, family, humanity, at the surprises life brings — the endless possibilities that living offers — and to persevere. There is love and insight to live for, bright moments to cherish, and even the possibility of happiness, and the chance of helping someone else through his or her own troubles. Know that people, through history and today, understand how much courage it takes to stay. Bear witness to the night side of being human and the bravery it entails, and wait for the sun. If we meditate on the record of human wisdom we may find there reason enough to persist and find our way back to happiness. The first step is to consider the arguments and evidence and choose to stay. After that, anything may happen. First, choose to stay.” Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht

  • Does Calvinism "set out an impossible task"? 13
  • Do you agree with WJ's father about "the point of life"? 
  • Can there be a constructive, non-violent "moral equivalent of war"? 21
  • Do you agree with James about "our national disease"? 22
  • Would it be bad if all your wishes "were fulfilled as soon as they arose"? 23
  • Was "Mark" right about the three parts of a person? 26
  • If there's no "soul" is determinism true? 28
  • If humans are animals, do we have no soul? 31
  • Were Nietzsche and Buber right about suicide? 34-5
  • Are you one of the lucky "once-born"? Does that make you "blind and shallow"? 40

 FL 39-40

  • How would you explain the phenomenon of Alex Jones?
  • Do you know any omniconspiracists? 357
  • Is there anything more reprehensible than a "Sandy Hook truther"?
  • Do you  know anyone who believes in conspiratorial "shape-shifting reptilian humanoids" 359
  • Why did "the reality-based right lose control to its fantasy-prone true believers"? 363
  • Does "economic insecurity correlate with greater religiosity"? 
  • Have you heard of Agenda 21? 364-5
  • Why is Ayn Rand's "selfishness is righteous" philosophy so popular with so many conservatives? And why don't they want to acknowledge her atheism? 367
  • Can the GOP restore a reasonable and moderate center, or is it now permanently going to be a fringe/extremist party? 368
  • Why do conservatives conflate socialism with communism? ("Denmark is a real country") 368
  • Do younger voters understand that the environment should not be a partisan issue?
  • How can the GOP Establishment justify perpetrating the "fraudulent fantasy" of voter fraud? 370
  • Did you know that Tennessee still has a law that "requires officeholders to believe in Heaven and Hell"? 374
  • Does Mencken's 1925 statement about "civilized Tennesseans" still apply? 375

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

by John Kaag (author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche)

In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life"--and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology--and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous--can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.

Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the "sick-souled," those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of "healthy-mindedness"--an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.

Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read. g'r


30 comments:

  1. How would you explain the phenomenon of Alex Jones?

    Alex Jones is a different character to say the least. Prior to trumps election and leaving office I had heard of him but didn't really know much about him. However, during the trump presidency many people began buying into his wild conspiracy theories and with that he gained more popularity and started to appear on big name news channels. I believe he is a result of the mass social change that occurred under trump and he simply played to those that were willing to listen. The amount of those willing to listen increased dramatically with his backing of trump. However, whenever there is someone that makes a view opposite of the agreed majority, there will always be those that listen.

    Can the GOP restore a reasonable and moderate center, or is it now permanently going to be a fringe/extremist party?

    The GOP and the democratic party have both shifted to extremes over the course of the trump presidency. Both either pander to the far left or the far right and you saw the start of this far lean during trumps first run for president during 2016. I believe it attempted to cool its far right lean after the capitol riot with many prominent republicans breaking ranks to destroy trump seeing an opportunity to oust him from the party. Many republicans never have nor still do like trump, they simply back him because the base he created is extremely loyal and if go against trump then say goodbye to your seat. You saw this after some republicans blamed trump for the riot being recalled by their states which killed a few political careers. However, trumps based remained resilient and republicans are being forced back in line if they want to stay in office. So as of right now no I don't see a break from the current conditions of a far left democratic party following Biden or the far right following trump. I believe we will see that if trump decides to not run again but that in unlikely.

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    1. I haven't seen a lot of leftist pandering from the present Democratic party, unless we redefine "left" as something centrist. That has in fact been happening in our politics for a few decades. Bernie Sanders is an obvious anomaly, though it remains to be seen whether the party will move leftward in the future in response to his success.

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  2. Section 7.

    No, not in 100% cases is suicide the worst way to exit life. In some cases, a death of your choice is preferable to a more painful or horrifying exit. I'd much rather bite a 9mm than I would burn up trapped in a house, for example. Generally though, a suicide is a sad thing. There's nothing worse than a life cut short, some would say.
    I can't say I know anyone who believes in shape shifting reptilian humanoids, but one of my best buddies does not believe in the existence of dinosaurs. He's never said why, though; it seems that belief is one of those "hunches without reason" type, which is perfectly fine. Although, had we not discover many many fossils, he wouldn't be so outlandish on his stance.

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    2. The pathetic guy who blew himself up on 2d Avenue in Nashville on Christmas morning believed in the shape-shifters, apparently. And dino-deniers generally have a fundamentalist-religious angle, either putting them on Noah's ark or denying them altogether. Science-denial is the root of such thinking (if you want to call it that).

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    3. Yeah I also think that there are worse way to die than suicide. I think the main problem people have with suicide is that it is by choice and not just a tragic accident.

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  3. Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?

    I think it is possible for even the happiest people to struggle with feeling like a failure. Nobody is going to be happy all of the time. There are going to be days of struggle and where you don't feel happy. In this case, that person who is known for being happy all the time may feel like a failure in those moments because they might become worried about what happens when the thing they are known for is temporarily absent. Everyone struggles with moments of feeling like a failure, but the important thing to understand is that everyone is on their own journey so you don't have to be like everyone else around you.

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    1. It must be nice, to be among the "Once Born" who never experienced a crisis of confidence or purpose. On the other hand, they'll never know the joys of what Bertrand Russell called "the conquest of happiness." I think you're right, a lot of unhappiness comes from social comparison and a feeling of inadequacy. Better to acknowledge our fallibility, and just get on with doing our best. But even geniuses doubt themselves. I just read that da Vinci considered himself a failure.

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    2. I also think that it is possible for happy people to feel like failures. It reminds me a bit of imposter syndrome.

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  4. I believe that no matter how happy you are in life, you could always see yourself as a failure. People are always so hard on themselves because they want to make everyone they love and care about happy and it is really hard to do that. There is no way you can ALWAYS make every single person in your life happy, the main person you can make and should make happy is yourself. Doing so can make a lot of people around you unhappy causing you to think that you have failed but I believe that it is a success making yourself happy.

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    1. I think prioritizing one's own well-being (in the Aristotelian sense of eudaimonia) is actually likely to make those around us more happy, rather than less. Living the good life means pursuing your good in tandem with that of your associates. But pursuing your own happiness to the exclusion of others' can become a form of self-absorption that's neither healthy nor happy.

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  5. Section 7
    Can there be a constructive, non-violent "moral equivalent of war"? 21
    I think that something as simple as having a conversation is a non-violent, constructive alternative to war but because people can not seem to take the time to understand one another, that could never happen. Humans are too emotional which makes them incapable of doing something as simple as having a honest conversation at the best interest of everyone.

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    1. The Moral Equivalent of War
      by William James
      (This essay, based on a speech delivered at Stanford University in 1906, is the origin of the idea of organized national service. The line of descent runs directly from this address to the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps to the Peace Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps. Though some phrases grate upon modern ears, particularly the assumption that only males can perform such service, several racially-biased comments, and the notion that the main form of service should be viewed as a "warfare against nature," it still sounds a rallying cry for service in the interests of the individual and the nation.)

      The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered than the glory and shame that come to nations as well as to individuals from the ups and downs of politics and the vicissitudes of trade. There is something highly paradoxical in the modern man's relation to war. Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history, and the record of a peaceful transition to the present time substituted for that of its marches and battles, and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, are the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition. In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible... (continues)

      https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/moral.html#:~:text=I%20spoke%20of%20the%20%22moral,war%20must%20have%20its%20way.&text=The%20martial%20type%20of%20character,honor%20and%20disinterestedness%20abound%20everywhere.

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    2. I also think if people talked to each other war could be prevented, but unfortunatley, I thinkt it would have to be the leaders who do so.

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  6. Keylee Crutcher Section 8

    Would it be bad if all your wishes "were fulfilled as soon as they arose"? 23
    --Yes. People always talk about ying and yang and they’re right. If I only every feel happy it becomes my normal. Without sadness you can’t appreciate happiness it just starts to feel too common. Also, in this specific scenario, I argue it would make you unhuman. “I want to be a billionaire” “I want to have a significant other who loves me” “I want to be happy” There’s no living anymore, just experiencing. It would be nice for a while, but eventually you wouldn’t feel human anymore.

    Did you know that Tennessee still has a law that "requires officeholders to believe in Heaven and Hell"? 374
    --Wow, no I didn’t know that it was an actual law and not just a socially enforced law. I don’t see how that’s legal, it’s discrimination.

    Have you heard of Agenda 21? 364-5
    --I’ve never heard of it before.



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  7. Section 8
    How can the GOP Establishment justify perpetrating the "fraudulent fantasy" of voter fraud?
    I think that is a loaded question when there has been numerous cases of people being caught and arrested for ballot harvesting, which is a form of voter fraud. I am not one to say that Democrats are more evil than Republicans, because I am one of those people who actually think that career politicians of both parties serve one purpose in recent years and its not to fight for their constituents, but rather to stay in power as long as possible. A lot of people like to write off people who believe that there was foul play in the election as conspiracy theorist because they don't want to actually address the fact that something like that might be happening. I just the other day received mail that was intended for my neighbor. The United States Postal Service is one of most mismanaged federal services in the country, losing billions of dollars every year, but we put them in charge of the greatest number of mail in votes in election history and I am sure that a lot of those mail in votes were never received by who they were meant for. You ask me why I am sure? I never received my mail in ballot and I know multiple other people who never got theirs either. https://abcnews4.com/news/beyond-the-podium/san-antonio-woman-arrested-for-alleged-election-fraud here is a link to an article that shows clear cases of voter fraud.

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  8. Section 8

    Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?

    I do believe the most successful people are never satisfied because they hold themselves to a higher standard. Thus making them believe they are failures. Or maybe they only seem happy at the surface level. I think truly happy people know how to recognize these thoughts but control them. Being able to control your thoughts and be an active player in your life not just reacting to your thoughts and emotions in life.

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  9. section 7
    Prolog, ch1

    Prior to this semester had you heard of William James?
    No, I had not.
    Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?
    This is a tricky question, maybe it is true to say that everyone is critical of their self to a certain extent. But I would presume that the happiest people would be confident in themselves and not so critical.
    Do you agree that believing life to be worth living "will help create the fact"? 5
    I do! I myself tend to romanticize small aspects of my life to make it a happier experience. If we give power to an idea, who's to say it isn't true to some extent?
    Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"? 10
    It really depends on who you are and where you're from. For some soldiers and samurai's in the past, it was considered honorable to die by your own hand. I personally find suicide to be a very tragic thing, but sometimes, it can be the less painful way to go in certain situations.

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    1. Could that confidence not lead someone thinking they can handle more than they really can with can lead them to feeling as though they are a failure?

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  10. Section 4

    I hate that suicide is an option to exit life, but in reality I don't think there is technically a "wrong" way to exit life. There isn't a "wrong" way in my opinion because we are entitled to what ever we want with our lives regardless of what others think, and I guess that expands to how we want to end it. Personally, I think we should all live our lives until an uncontrollable force takes us out, like an accident or just natural death. I do dislike the people who shame those for suicide because "they are wasting the life that God gave them", but in the end that is how they chose to use their "life that God gave them". Suicide is never a great option and I think you should explore many other options for help before you pick the one with the most consequence.

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  11. Marim Sameer (4/15)
    Section 7
    Discussion answer/ weekly essay
    Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?
    Yes, I do believe that the happiest people can still think of themselves as failures. Everyone is so hard on themselves, some more than others. We always push ourselves because we think that we can always do better. That if we reached our goal, we could just push further. I do not think it is a healthy thing for it can drain you mentally. Personally, speaking I am pretty happy with life. I have a great set of friends and a family that loves and cares for me and I'm striving for my career in the future. However, I am constantly hard on myself to the point where everyone around me notices. I put more on my plate than I really need. I feel like that is an aspect a lot of people have. Once we put too much on our plate, we start to feel like we can no longer accomplish all the tasks we set for ourselves, so we start to feel like failures. Another point is that I feel like in this time in society a lot of people start to compare themselves to others. When they see someone making it look like they can handle so much they want to believe they can as well and overdo it when little do, they know that other people are struggling as well.

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  12. Section 7

    Prior to this semester had you heard of William James?

    I think I might have heard his name mentioned once in my history classes, but before this class, I never knew anything about him.

    Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"? 10

    I think if a person’s life is very filled with pain, it would be understandable. Personally, I think you should do everything in your power to stay, but I would also realize that a life filled with suffering is not worth living and they should not be forced to stay against their will. I think this question relates to the euthanasia argument. If we let animals go humanely, why do we not do the same with actual humans?

    Is there anything more reprehensible than a "Sandy Hook truther"?

    I think the only thing worse would be the person who actually shot up the school. It is so insulting and painful for the parents to hear people deny that it every happened when their own children died from it.

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  13. Prophetess Turner, Section 4:

    Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?

    I do think that there are some people out there who appear happy to others, but feel like failures on the inside. As far as on a personal measure, I think that if someone genuinely feels happy inside, then they wouldn't consider themselves a failure. To be truly happy, I think you have to be accepting of all aspects of yourself.

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  14. Section 7
    Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"? 10

    Yes, I agree with this statement. I had a really close friend in high school my freshman year. Early in the first semester his Dad took his own life because he felt it was his only way out. He had 2 kids and one of them was old enough to handle it because he was already setting up his new life, but his son that was just starting high school it was rough. I remember the look my Mom gave me after his Mom had just got off the phone. My Mom told me and I told her we had to go there so I could see him and talk to him and she said she knew. I was one of his first friends when he transferred in middle school, and since that happened freshman year, I haven't seen the same guy I had initially met no matter how good of a look he puts on.

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  15. Prior to this semester had you heard of William James?
    No.

    Do younger voters understand that the environment should not be a partisan issue?
    The environment being a political issue or not is an issue still. There is irony in the conversation its self because of the sheer ignorance that is backed by the Statement that this isn’t a political problem. Reason being is that although politics is for socioeconomic issues mostly the leaders in place make decisions that directly effects our enviornment, thus making this a political issue as well as a world problem by result of apathy from those who make decisions that result in the situation that got us to this point. Franckly the reason that most officials don’t care about this issue is because to even be a part of most political positions you have to be above a certain age, because of this political leaders believe that this is not an issue they care to solve in their lifetime because they will arguably not even be around when these faults in decisions have consequences. The irony there is that we are already seeing the problems with these issues being left unchecked.

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  16. Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"? 10

    Yes, 100% it is the wrong way to exit life. I am Christian and I believe that suicide is a sin. I believe that God has a certain timeframe for us to be born and to die. Suicide messes with that timeline, and plus I also believe that this body isn't mine. This body was given to me by God, so by killing oneself, it's technically destroying God's property. Life gets hard, and sometimes people think that it is the only way out. If it really was the best option, why do those people try to call someone to talk themselves out of it? Because deep down inside, they have a small fighting sense to live. Plus, those people also think that no one would care for them, but in the aftermath, there are many people would be devasted that a close someone killed themselves. So yes, I think suicide is the wrong way out of life.
    Do you know anyone who believes in conspiratorial "shape-shifting reptilian humanoids" 359
    I personally do not know anyone who believes in that, but I have seen tons of memes online where they make fun of a famous person being a shape-shifitng reptilian humanoids. I really don't understand the logic behind that, because if they were real, wouldn't they have tried to attack us by now. I personally think it just something a troll probably made as a joke, and a small group of people started believing in it.

    Did you know that Tennessee still has a law that "requires officeholders to believe in Heaven and Hell"? 374

    I did not know that Tennessee even had a law about that. I'm not really too surprised though, because Tennessee falls under the Bible Belt states. I wonder if the lawmakers also have to be Christian too, because most people believe in a Heaven and a Hell, but they don't state to be Christians.

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  17. Section 4
    Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?
    I feel like everyone no matter how happy they are have at one time or another thought of themselves as failures. They may even be happy around others but as soon as they are alone they think of themselves as failures or disappointments.
    Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"?
    Suicide is always the wrong thing to do and no one should have to hurt enough to think about and follow through about suicide. Whenever this happens all I can think about is how that person could have made the world better or how they could have impacted the people around them to be better and how sad it is that we will no longer be able to see that happen.
    Do you know anyone who believes in conspiratorial "shape-shifting reptilian humanoids"?
    I don't know anyone that believes in that but I do know a few people that believe in wild conspiracy theories. I feel like since the internet, people that believe in that kind of stuff have mostly kept to themselves and their own little circle.

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  18. Ash Warner Section 7
    Is suicide always "the wrong way to exit life"?
    I believe that suicide is the wrong way out of life yes. No matter how low you get in life, you should never end your own life. You can always improve your conditions if you try. Nothing is forever, everything is temporary, whatever pain or hardships you’re experiencing you can make it through it. It is hard sometimes but you’ll get through it. Life is about overcoming adversity so suicide is essentially quitting

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  19. Do you think even the happiest people think of themselves as failures?
    I do not think that this is necessarily true because they generally would not be happy if they thought of themselves as failures, not to say that there aren’t happy people that still consider themselves failures. I think what makes us happy is the thought of accomplishment or success which goes against the idea of a happy person seeing themselves as a failure.

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