Week 4 Blogging

For this week I want you to post a one or two sentence summary of your topic and which book essay or essays you will be using. For your peer reviews, I'd like you to read your peer's topics and make some suggestions to them as far as direction or other sources. Perhaps you know someone they could interview successfully or you've read something related in the news recently. Blogs are about connecting and sharing information so share something relevant with several people. Try to make sure everyone gets at least two ideas.

Week 3 What is Reality?

Now that you've read more about Descartes and his difficult theory, respond to the following quote:

To rest in the apparent and to mistake it for the real is the one general error, root of all others and the cause of all our stumbling and suffering, to which man is exposed by the nature of his mentality.

--Sri Aurobindo (Indian mystic and creator of yoga)

Week 2 How Do I Know What I Know?

Do you tend to follow your life more from Descartes' (French pronunciation Day-cart) Rationalist view that things gathered from your senses aren't the entire truth, or from John Locke's Empirical view that the senses give us all of the information we need? Why? How?

"I am, I exist, that is certain." Rene Descartes

"For since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate objects but its own ideas, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them."
-- John Locke