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 WGU -p.122. FL 31-32

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?

4 comments:

  1. Nicholas Schionning
    5: That we learn the difference between 'is' and 'ought'

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  2. FL
    1. What percentage of evangelicals believe "Jesus will return no later than he year 2050"? According to Pew Research Center, 58% of Evangelicals believe that Jesus will return by the year 2050.

    2. Who's "the most prominent blame-the-victims horror-storyteller"? The most prominent blame-the-victims Christian horror-storyteller is Pat Robertson. He spreads ideas such as that the events of 9/11 were America's punishment from God for feminism, homosexuality, free speech, and paganism or that Hurricane Katrina was God's response to laws permitting abortion.

    3. How many Americans say they believe in the devil or demonic possession? Surveys since the 1990s have found that between a half and three quarters of Americans believe in the devil or that it is possible to become possessed by a demon. Another survey of Christians conducted in 2009 found that more than a third believe that Satan is a living being.

    4. How many people in the U.K. said they have no religion?
    In a survey conducted in 1985, a third of people in the U.K. stated they had no religion at all.

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  3. Do we have a right to happiness?
    No, I don't think we have the right to be happy. We have the right to work for it. A right is something that is unalienable to it's consumer. I think happiness is short term and is accomplishable with work. other wise eternal joy is a right we have, but it relies on how you plan to get it. But once again, we have the right to look for it, not to have it.

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  4. Do we have a right to happiness?

    I honestly think that yes we do have a right to happiness. As humans we strive to be happy and all of us have the capacity for happiness inside us. Whether or not we excersise that right and actually are happy is up to the "liver". I think saying we dont have a right to being happy would imply that some people can never possibly be happy or that there is an external barrier to happiness. I do not believe this, I think whether you are happy or not depends on how you view things and the way you reflect on events/personal things. Everyone has the power of happiness inside them, whether you choose to use and practice that power or not.

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