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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Questions MARCH 28

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WGU -p.122

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

2 comments:

  1. Adriana Ramirez Speis H03 WGU (p.80-122)
    1. "The miracle that saves the world," said Hannah Arendt, is ____.
    The miracle that saves the world, according to Hannah Arendt, is “the fact of natality… the birth of new men and the new beginning.”

    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 what is and what ought. Things are not as they should be and the normal, justified reaction is rage.

    4. How did David Hume dispel "this philosophical melancholy and delirium"? 
    David Hume dispelled this philosophical melancholy and delirium by having a good meal, playing a game of backgammon and hanging out with a couple of merry friends.

    5. What did Kant say we must take seriously, in order to grow up?
    According to Kant, we must take both the is and ought seriously in order to grow up.

    6. What must reason find intolerable about the world?
    Reason must find a world in which “those who are worthy of happiness are subject to misery and oppression” intolerable.

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  2. H02 - WGU 1
    Natality is the miracle that saves the world according to Hannah Arendt.

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