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Questions MAR 22

MAR 22 WGU -p.122. FL 31-32... If you've not yet had an opportunity to present your report, be present and prepared on Tuesday... We're a bit out of sync but we'll catch up. Stay on track with the assigned reading.

1. "The miracle that saves the world," said Hannah Arendt, is ____.

2. For Kant the most important fact about us is what?

3. What is "the metaphysical wound at the heart of the universe"? 

4. How did David Hume dispel "this philosophical melancholy and delirium"? 

5. What did Kant say we must take seriously, in order to grow up?

6. What must reason find intolerable about the world?

Discussion Questions

  • Is Hannah Arendt's emphasis on natality as important as mortality, in defining the human condition? Would it still be, if we ever achieved natural immortality? 80-81
  • Is the US still a proud nation of immigrants, or more like those European nations "struggling with what they regard as the problem of immigration? 81
  • Are there ways other than travel to "experience the world as babies do" etc.? 83
  • Did your upbringing make it easier or harder for you to trust? 86
  • "Once you start asking why, there's no natural place to stop." 88 So why do so many people stop, or else never start?
  • How long would we have to live, to see this as Leibniz's "best possible world" 89
  • Was Hume right about reason being slave to the passions? 93
  • Was Thrasymachus right about justice? 94
  • Do you agree with the cliche about socialism? 100
  • Is Hume's strategy for dispelling melancholy good? 104
  • Has the gap between ought and is narrowed in the world, historically?107
  • Was Nietzsche right about stoicism? 113
  • Is it childish to expect the world to make sense? 114
  • How can philosophy help us grow up? 119
  • Do we have a right to happiness? 122

FL
1. What percentage of evangelicals believe "Jesus will return no later than he year 2050"?

2. Who's "the most prominent blame-the-victims horror-storyteller"?

3. How many Americans say they believe in the devil  or demonic possession?

4. How many people in the U.K. said they have no religion?

5. What's the latest scholarly consensus about America's exceptional religiosity?

8 comments:

  1. FL
    1. 58% of evangelicals believe Jesus will return by 2050.

    2. Pat Robertson is "the most prominent blame-the-victims horror storyteller."

    3. Between half and three-quarters of Americans believe in the devil or demonic possession.

    4. A third to half of people had no religion in the U.K.

    5. Economic theory is the latest scholarly consensus about America's religiosity.

    Section 6.

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  2. Kloey Jackson Section 006
    WGU
    1. "natality" or "the birth of new men and the new beginning"
    2. "The fact that non of us is God"
    3. Nietzsche
    4. with a good meal, a game of backgammon, and a couple of merry friends
    5. is and ought
    6. "A world in which those who are worthy of happiness are subject to misery and oppression is a world out of joint"

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  3. Eden Tucker Section 006

    WGU
    1. "The miracle that saves the world," said Hannah Arendt, is ____.
    “..ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ultimately rooted… the birth of new men and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by virtue of being born.”
    2. For Kant the most important fact about us is what?
    For Kant, the most important fact about us is that none of us is God.
    3. What is "the metaphysical wound at the heart of the universe"?
    “The metaphysical wound at the heart of the universe” is the gap between is and ought, such as a situation of unequal reward for equal behavior or outright violence. “Things are not as they should be,” and you can neither get the should or the things out of your heart.
    4. How did David Hume dispel "this philosophical melancholy and delirium"?
    David Hume dispels this by “a good meal, a game of backgammon, and a couple of merry friends.”
    5. What did Kant say we must take seriously, in order to grow up?
    Kant said that we must take both the “is and ought” seriously in order to grow up. It is quoted that “if we are ever to arrive at an adulthood we need not merely acquiesce in but can actively claim as our own.”
    6. What must reason find intolerable about the world?
    A world in which those are worthy of happiness are subject to misery and oppression is a world out of joint, and reason must find that intolerable.
    FL
    1. What percentage of evangelicals believe "Jesus will return no later than the year 2050"?
    58 percent.

    2. Who's "the most prominent blame-the-victims horror-storyteller"?
    Pat Robertson


    3. How many Americans say they believe in the devil or demonic possession?
    Between half and three-quarters of all Americans have this belief in the devil or demonic possession.

    4. How many people in the U.K. said they have no religion?
    In 1985, a third of U.K. people said they had no religion, but by 2012, it went up to half.

    5. What's the latest scholarly consensus about America's exceptional religiosity?
    The latest scholarly consensus is that it is an economic theory. It is said that because all forms of religion are products in a marketplace, our exceptional free marketism has produced more supply and therefore generated more demand.

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  4. Section #9

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    1. Birth is the miracle that saves the world.
    2. Kant thought the most important fact is that no human is God is contingent.
    3. The wound is that things are not as they should be.
    4. Hume says it only takes a meal, a game of backgammon, and good friends to dispel melancholy.
    5. We must take what IS, and what OUGHT to be seriously, in order to grow up.

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  5. WGU

    1. "The miracle that saves the world," said Hannah Arendt, is natality.
    2. For Kant the most important fact about us is what? The fact that none of us is God.
    3. What is "the metaphysical wound at the heart of the universe"? Nietzsche
    4. How did David Hume dispel "this philosophical melancholy and delirium"? All it takes is a good meal, a game of backgammon and a couple of merry friends.
    5. What did Kant say we must take seriously, in order to grow up? Is and ought.
    6. What must reason find intolerable about the world? “ A world in which those who are worthy of happiness are subject to misery and oppression is a world out of joint.”

    Section 6

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  6. Section 6

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    1. Natality
    2. The fact that non of us is God
    3. The gap between is and ought, the difference between what should be and that is.
    4. a good meal, backgammon, and merry friends.
    5. we must take seriously both “is” and “ought.”
    6. "A world in which those who are worthy of happiness are subject to misery and oppression is a world out of joint”

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  7. Section 6:

    WGU

    1. The miracle that saves the world is birth.

    2.None of us can be/is God.

    3.We must take what "is" and what "ought" to be seriously.

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  8. Section 009

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    2.) For Kant the most important fact about us is that our cognitive capacities are able to comprehend things so distinct from us
    3.)That things are not as they should be and you cannot get what you should out of things or you heart.
    4.)According to David Hume, a good meal, friends, and a good game could dispel this philosophical melancholy and delirium.
    5.) Kant said we should take both Hume's and Rousseau reaction to the discovery of the mismatch between 'is' and 'ought', in order to reach adulthood.
    6.) Reason must find happiness being subject to misery and oppression intolerable.

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