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Questions MAR 29

WGU -p.192. FL 35-36. Assign final report topics...

1. What hallmark of modernity reversed Plato's and Aristotle's judgment?

2. What gives life meaning, for Kant?

3. In a truly human society, according to Marx, how would our capacities to work develop?

4.  Most jobs involve what, according to Paul Goodman? 

5. People were certain, as late as 2008, that what?

6. What alternatives to consumerism have small groups begun to develop?


FL

1. What are "squishies"?

2. Who (who should have been defenders of reason) instead became enablers of Fantasyland?

3. Who is Jodi Dean?

4. What is Responsive Ed?

5. Why did Jefferson say America should neither ban nor embrace any particular religion?



Discussion Questions

  • Was Locke's "sweet" labor theory of value invalidated by the invention of money? 166
  • Do we have a duty to our own humanity to work? 167
  • Was Arendt correct about the distinction between labor and work, and about their rootedness  in natality? 168-9
  • Was Rousseau right about the value of learning to work with your hands, particularly carpentry?  172
  • Do you worry, as Paul Goodman did, that there may be "no decent work to grow up for"? 173
  • Is it a "travesty" to call people who work in advertising "creatives"? 175
  • Is consumer capitalism infantilizing?
  • Do you regularly discard "unfashionable" clothes or other goods before they wear out or break down? Should you? 179
  • Do you want to produce something of value? Why? 181
  • Do you expect to find meaning in your work? If not, where will you find it? 185

  • Is there something self-contradictory about being a "committed relativist," if all knowledge claims are "self-serving opinions or myths"? 308
  • Have you had any "nonjudgmental Squishie" teachers who taught that reason was not for everyone, or that "someone's capacity to experience the supernatural" depends on their "willingness to see more than is materially present"? 308 
  • What do you think of Schwartz's "synchronicities"? 310
  • What do you think of Jodi Dean's defense of UFO "abductees"? 311
  • What do you think of "the boy who came back from heaven," etc.? 314
  • Have you had any textbooks similar to Responsive Ed's science texts? 315
  • Will COVID give survivalism more momentum? (317) Will it boost alternative medicine? 318
  • Are Survivalists and Preppers "wacky and sad"? 319 Why is this such an American phenomenon?
  • Do you agree with Jefferson's statement about freedom of and from religion? 320
  • COMMENT, in light of recent events?: "Some American fantasies have become weaponized, literally." 321 
  • Do you agree "that so many of our neighbors are saying so many loony things [and Kurt Andersen wrote that before the Q-Anon conspiracy loonies surfaced, and before January 6] is doing us real injury"? 322  

8 comments:

  1. Kloey Jackson section 006
    WGU
    1."not contemplation but activity came to be seen as most fundamentally human"
    2. Action
    3. "...hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do philosophy after dinner"
    4. "doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful and demeaning and dumb to boot"
    6. "labour and work" "consume some things wisely rather than being consumed by them"

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  2. Section #9

    WGU
    1. That work was more "fundamentally human" than contemplation.
    2. Kant said action gives life meaning.
    3. Marx believed we would hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do philosophy after dinner.
    4. Paul believed most jobs "involve doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful and demeaning and dumb to boot."
    5. Religious Fundamentalism

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  3. WGU

    Section 6

    1. "not contemplation but activity came to be seen as most fundamentally human."

    2. "For Kant it is action that gives life meaning, so much so that action becomes a duty."

    3. "we would hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and do philosophy after dinner."

    4. "most involve doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful and demeaning and dumb to boot."

    5.

    6. religious fundamentalism

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  4. Section 6

    WGU

    1. What hallmark of modernity reversed Plato's and Aristotle's judgment? “ Not contemplation but activity came to be seen as most fundamentally human.”
    2. What gives life meaning, for Kant? Action gives Kant life meaning.
    3. In a truly human society, according to Marx, how would our capacities to work develop? “Marx thought would hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and do philosophy after dinner.”
    4. Most jobs involve what, according to Paul Goodman? “Most involve doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful and demeaning and dumb to poor.”
    5. People were certain, as late as 2008, that what? N/A
    6. What alternatives to consumerism have small groups begun to develop? Religious Fundamentalism

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    1. 4. dumb to boot*
      5. There wouldn’t be a black President

      Section 6

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  5. Section 6
    2. What gives life meaning, for Kant?

    Action is what gives life meaning for Kant.

    3. In a truly human society, according to Marx, how would our capacities to work develop?

    Marx felt that we would hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do philosophy after dinner.

    4. Most jobs involve what, according to Paul Goodman?

    Paul Goodman thought most jobs involved doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful, demeaning, and dumb to boot.

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  6. FL
    1. Squishies are people disincline to "'stigmatize knowledge claims' that deserve stigma.'"

    2. "The very Americans who ought...in the long war in defense of reason, professors and graduates whose minds they shape, instead became enablers of Fantasyland."

    3. Jodi Dean graduated from Princeton and is a political scientist.

    4. Responsive Ed is "the largest charter-education operator in Texas."

    5. Jefferson thinks people should believe what they want to believe because "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my legs."

    Section 6.

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  7. Eden Tucker 006
    WGU -p.192. FL 35-36.
    1. What hallmark of modernity reversed Plato's and Aristotle's judgment?
    This ideology reversed Plato’s and Aristotle’s jugement: not contemplation but activity came to be seen as most fundamentally human. This is in contrast to the idea that only slaves and women work.
    2. What gives life meaning, for Kant?
    Action gives life meaning, because action becomes a duty.
    3. In a truly human society, according to Marx, how would our capacities to work develop?
    Marx laid down a to-do list of how our capacities to work would develop, in the routine of - we would hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and do philosophy after dinner.
    4. Most jobs involve what, according to Paul Goodman?
    According to Paul Goodman, most jobs involve doing things that are “patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful and demeaning.”

    FL
    1. What are "squishies"?
    Squishies are people intellectually or temperamentally disinclined to “stigmatize knowledge claims” that deserve stigma. Or, in other words, to tell people that they’re full of sh*t when they are.
    2. Who (who should have been defenders of reason) instead became enablers of Fantasyland?
    College graduates / educated Americans became enablers of Fantasyland.
    3. Who is Jodi Dean?
    Jodi Dean is a political scientist and professor who is quoted with the ideology, “There are myriad perspectives on the world, each with its own legitimate claim to truth.” Additionally, she is quoted saying that the meanings of belief and reality aren’t clear, and wants to use her academic jargon to gain attention for her beliefs.
    4. What is Responsive Ed?
    It is a company that is the largest charter-education operator in Texas. They teach religion instead of science, and belittle Evolutionary biology, stating that it consists of “dogma” and “unproved theory.”
    5. Why did Jefferson say America should neither ban nor embrace any particular religion?
    Jefferson said that they should neither ban nor embrace any particular religion, because “it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” In the past, the government-sanctioned churches have persecuted and even executed heretics, so it would be easier if there were no set religion of state.

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