Philosophy teaches us to think about, contemplate, and clearly express the fundamental concepts of life. It explicitly identifies ideas that we have been thinking and living all along.
Philosophy begins in wonder and wonder bears fruit when it results in philosophical analysis
life is not simple and philosophy helps both unpack the complexity and provide a way through it. Just reading about the problem of universals and seeing the different philosophical views about it throughout history has given me a greater appreciation for what it means to exist
do not get too comfortable with simple answers.
To the theist, God is ultimate reality and His nature and commands ought to be a fundamental consideration in how she makes decisions
Civil and criminal law rely heavily upon what someone knows and how this affected their actions
(logic) is essential to interacting with our own and other’s ideas. Reasoning properly is an example of logic in action
Morality is a daily concern in lif
s highly pragmatic when applied properly.
The reasoning and analytical abilities acquired from analyzing complex ideas and arguments are essential in a number of other of fields.
Dan Dennett is a philosopher and in this video, he speaks about how hard it is to change people's consciousness. Basically, it's hard to change the opinion of somebody. I watched this video because it helped me write my blog on: what it means to be human.
This video also helped me with my sociology project on teen ignorance. Dan Dennett speaks about apathy near the middle of the video, which has to do with my project.
This video speaks about the human evolution, and what makes somebody human. It helped me write my blog because it gave me some other ideas that I had never thought of.
This website is a description written by Jim Manzi one the utilitarians point of view as to why torture is wrong. This man is currently the chairman and managing director of Applied Predictive Technologies (a business analytics software company which is a contributing editor at the National Review), a senior worker at the Manhattan Institute, and a continuous blogger. In his writing based on a utilitarian case against torture, he describes how in no matter what was a person looks at torture, you will always be dehumanizing a human being.