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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Questions SEP 29

 PRESENTATIONS CONTINUE; Mill, Darwin, Kierkegaard, Marx-LH 24-27. FL 21-22, HWT 23-24.

LH

1. How did Mill disagree with Bentham about pleasure? Are they both right?

2. What view did Mill defend in On Liberty? Is that view consistent with his criticisms of Bentham?

3. What's the benefit to society of open discussion, according to Mill, and what's wrong with being dogmatic? Is our society generally "open" in this sense, or dogmatic?

4. Who did Bishop Wilberforce debate at Oxford in 1860? What do you think of his response to the Bishop on the matter of ancestry?

5. The single best idea anyone ever had was what, according to whom? Can you think of a better one?

6. What scientific developments since Darwin's time establish evolution by natural selection as more than just a theory or hypothesis? What does it take to turn a theory into something more?

7. Who was the Danish Socrates, and what was most of his writing about? What do you think of his "leap" and his irrationalism?

8. Why is faith irrational, according to Nigel Warburton? Do you agree?

9. What is "the subjective point of view"? Do we need to value objectivity as well?

10. Why was Karl Marx angry? How did he think the whole of human history could be explained? DId he have a point?

11. What was Marx's "vision"? Is it an appealing one

12. What did Marx call religion? Was he being unfair?

HWT
1. What two concepts from Indian and Buddhist philosophy are essentially the same? 


2. What are the four stages of Hindu life?

3. What is "the smile of philosophy"?

FL
1. What were Americans spending a third of their time doing, by the end of the '50s?

2. Who grew up in Marceline, MO?

3. What fantasy did Hugh Hefner sell?

4. What was added to currency in 1954?

5. What did Jane Roberts "discover" in 1963?

6. The sudden embrace of what, in the 60s, helped turn America into Fantasyland?

2 comments:

  1. Laney #11
    LH
    2. He defended that giving people their space to develop is the best way to organize society. No they’re not consistent.
    4. Thomas Huxley.
    6. More information on genes and fossils. Concrete evidence.
    8. It’s not based on reason.
    10. He was angry because the working conditions of the Industrial Revolution were grim and the workers were treated poorly. As a class struggle.
    12. The opium of the people. Marx was a little unfair. Religion is important to some people and him saying it was their drug they kept coming back to was a little unfair of him.

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  2. Kayla Pulling #7
    HWT
    1. They both excepted the law of Karma, Dharma, and Moksha.
    2. Sisya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and Samnyasa.
    3. Humor itself.

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