Peirce & James, Nietzsche, Freud-LH 28-30, FL 23-24, HWT 25-26.
1. What's the point of James's squirrel story? Have you ever been involved in a "metaphysical dispute" of this sort? How was it resolved?
2. Who said truth is what we would end up with if we could run all the experiments and investigations we'd like to? (And what's a word his name rhymes with?) What does it imply about the present status of what we now consider true?3. What did Bertrand Russell say about James's theory of truth? Was he being fair?
4. What 20th century philosopher carried on the pragmatist tradition? What did he say about the way words work? Does his approach seem reasonable to you?
5. What did Nietzsche mean by "God is dead"? (And what's a word his name rhymes with?) Does that statement seem nihilistic to you?
6. Where did Nietzsche think Christian values come from? What do you think about that?
7. What is an Ubermensch, and why does Nigel find it "a bit worrying"? Does it worry you that some of our peers think of themselves as exempt from the rules and norms that the rest of us follow?
8. How did Nietzsche differ from Kant but anticipate Freud? Is rationality less available to us than we think?
9. What were the three great revolutions in thought, according to Freud? Was he overrating his own contributions?
10. The "talking cure" gave birth to what? Have you had any direct experience with it, or any other form of "talking cure"?
11. Why did Freud think people believe in God? Was he right, about some people at least?
12. What was Karl Popper's criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis? Do you agree?
HWT
1. What really distinguishes utilitarianism, for Baggini?
2. How did Mozi's maxim resemble J.ZS. Mill's principle of utility?
3. Each item of Jonathan Israel's key principles of Enlightenment concerns what?
4. Pluralism is often mistaken for what?
Laney #11
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2. The maxim and the Principle of Unity both promote good as people doing good for the world and bad or wrong as the opposite.
4. Laissez-faire relativism
Laney #11
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2. Charles Pierce
4. Richard Rorty. He believed words were used to cope with the world, not copy it. I like his approach because of the example the book gave, that of everyone interpreting the world their own way like literary critics.
6. He thought Christian values came from Ancient Greeks that had been powerless within society and had rebelled against the rulers that valued heroism and honor and instead began to value generosity and care for the weak.
8. Nietzsche was different from Kant in that he discussed how emotions and irrational forces impacted actions while Kant celebrated reason. He influenced Freud, whose beliefs were those of the nature and power of unconscious desires.
10. Psychoanalysis.
12. He said it was unfalsifiable. He said that scientific data should be testable.
What do you think about how Nietzsche's works were edited by his sister? Do you think he would have approved?
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ReplyDeleteCharles Peirce, whose name rhymes with purse, said that truth is what we would end up with if we could run all the experiments we wanted to.
Nietzsche thought that Christian values were derived from Ancient Greeks that had been powerless and rebelled against their rulers and they started to value generosity and began to care for the weak.
"Unlike Immanuel Kant, who celebrated reason, Nietzsche always emphasized how emotions and irrational forces play their part in shaping human values."
mona ikbariah #7
ReplyDelete1- For baggini what really distinguishes utilitarianism is it's absolute impartiality.
4- Pluralism is often mistaken for laissez-faire relativism.
Freud thought that people believed in god to fulfill satisfy their need for a father figure.
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4. Richard Rorty; He said that words allow us to cope with the world, not copy it.
6. He thought Christian values came from the Ancient Greeks that had been powerless within society and had rebelled against the rulers that valued heroism and honor.
8. Nietzsche was different from Kant in that he discussed how emotions and irrational forces impacted actions while kant celebrated reason.
10. Psychoanalysis
12. He said it was unfalsifiable.
11. Why did Freud think people believe in God? Was he right, about some people at least? Freud's theory was that people believed in God because they had unconscious desires to be protected and cared for. Freud believed that their idea of god was formed because of unmet psychological needs/desires from their childhood; they are unaware, since these desires are repressed. I believe that Freud was right about some people; some people believe in the idea of god because it is comforting to believe that there is a higher power that protects you and cares about you.
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4. Laissez - Faire relativisme
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2. C.S. Piere
10. Physcoanalysis