Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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.
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My topis is :are humans always selfish? My first example comes from Plato's older brother who says that given the chance, good people and evil people would all act the same. Another example I use is from Ayn Rand. She is an author who turned philosopher. She believes that people should live for themselves. It is better to be strong rather than merciful, headstrong instead of caring. My final example is a professor who thinks that no one can be 100% selfish. If they were that would mean that they have no affection for family or friends, that they never feel compassion or pity. I finish using Mother Teresa as an example of someone who is not at all selfish.
My topic is: Faith not logic is the basis for belief. Kierkegaard's point is that no matter how rigorous your logical system, there will always be gaps. As these gaps are logical gaps, it is useless to try and bridge them. Instead, they can only be breached by a leap of faith. What characterizes a leap of faith is the absolute uncertainty that underlies it. Faith is by definition that which cannot be proven or disproved. That meant, for Kierkegaard at least, embracing the religious life. One of Soren’s quotes about faith states “Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
my topic is "Can we prove God Exists?" I have used the articles in the book that are based on Emmanuel Kant's three arguments for how we can prove God exists. I also discuss Darwinism and how those believers think that everything was created from evolution. I do not presume to try and prove one or the other wrong, because let's face it, there is no way to prove that God does or does not exist. It's all about your perception and faith.
For Nick,
I don't agree with your 2nd and 3rd examples' ideas of people being selfish. People should defenitely not live for just themselves, of course we should all care about ourselves and take care of ourselves, but not to the extent of not thinking or caring for someone else. the professor who thinks that no one can be 100% wrong, i believe is wrong. I know and have seen people that only care about themselves 100% of the time. those are just my thoughts.
For Troy,
I read your idea and listened to you in class, and I'm glad i do not have your topic. I feel like it would be a tough one. to try and prove that the gaps in our logic are comprised of faith would be something that i could not wrap my mind around. Maybe i have too much logic in my brain. HA :)
For Bryn, The definition of faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. I feel not believing that something greater is out there is a greater leap of faith not believing in God's existance.
Bryn,
You don't have to porve either one but which one do you agree with.I am sure you lean one way or the other. For evolutionists, if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? For creationists, how did it all start? With a big bang? We are the exact distance we need to be from the sun, wow what a coincidence!
Troy, Do you use any counterpoint arguments in your paper or are you just picking points that agree with yours?
My topic is Selfishness; the defining issue between Selfishness and True Selfishness. At the beginning before my research I was going to do "what is selfishness when raising a family as a single mother" (sometime's as a single mother selfish acts have to be done in order to provide) "What is best for my children and should I do this for someone else, when my children need me first"? After doing research, there is a difference between being Selfish and having True Selfish actions. My topic is very interesting and I have learned a lot of interesting facts. True Selfishness is the aspect of being "true" to ourselves and to others, no matter who it might entail.
The resources "essay's" I found to help with my paper were from two different web sites
"www.noahite.org" and "www.kjmaclean.com" these web sites came from the christian aspect of Selfishness. Great thoughts, opinions, and facts that I learned a great deal about. I at least now can say I am not being selfish when I have to think about myself and can not do for others like I want too. I am using True Selfish actions =) "anything to make me feel better about it....right" =)
For Nick,
Your topic is Selfishness as well as mine. I found a web site that has a great example of selfishness and how it could affect a person from childhood years to an adult and then as an adult use selfishness on other people. This is explained why this is such a horrible circle in life. Check it out if you want. "www.noahite.org"
Mine is freedom and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King was known for reciting quotes from philosophiers. One was "it is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return, Love is understanding, redemptive, creative, good will for all men and it is this idea, it is this whole ethic of love which is the idea standing at the basis of the sutdens movement for segregation" He has also had great respect for Gandhi and his nonviolent way to help people. My report is about his speech and how he felt about the fight for freedom, whether it was racial or sexual, he was one who stood with Rosa Parks. I have found his writings to be very thoughtful
My topic is "are humans always selfish?", I have used the example that we talked about in class. If we have to kill a baby in order to live, will we do it? I feel that there are more selfish people in this world than selfless people. I also feel that people sometimes do good deeds because it will make them feel good about it. I did a little survey at work (which I deal with hudreds of people weekly), almost all of them tell me that they feel that "humans are always selfish".
For Nick,
I agree that no one can be 100% selfish, but yourself comes before anybody. Families and friends have love for each other, but that does not mean they are selfish in their own way. Humans are individualist, and selfish is our basic survival instinct. Well, as you see I am doing my paper on "humans are always selfish". :)
My topic is:
Humans Are Always Selfish or Not Always Selfish.
I used the sources from www.Businessweek.com and Classic Philosophical Questions Book.
My focus was on "Are Americans Selfish or Unselfish." I believe you can find good in all humans. Sometimes it takes catastrophes to pull us together but survival is necessary for all of us. I mainly focused on the top American givers to causes and Amish community helping their own.
Amy, You should look at the writings of Ayn Rand. She belives that people should be selfish to serve themselves. She was a writer who became a philoosopher.
Nicole, your paper sounds very interesting. It brings to my mind "est" training in the late 70's. People were taught that people were responible and caused their own problems.These problems could be disease, car accidents, just about anything. And we should not feel sorry for these people. They brought it on themselves. We need to take care of Number 1, oursleves.
My topic is religion. I am questioning whether or not people really believe when they claim they believe just in case. I read Pascal which is chapter 26 part 6. Pascal does not believe in God. He feels that the only reason people believe in God is because they think they will benefit from it not because they actually believe in him.
Troy, my topic also has to do with belief. There is an interesting website that talked about why you should believe and about how there is always going to be something that will try to disprove a theory.
My topic was on "Humans are Determined". It ended up being a little harder to find things on the internet that I had expected, but overall, I believe that determination comes from within, if you have the drive and determination to do something - you will succeed.
I listened to Nick read his paper in class about if humans are always selfish. He had some really good points in what is considered selfish or of self-interest. You might have to think about it for a minute, but I would agree with Nick that I people tend to be less selfish and look more towards self interest...but it's how it's perceived.
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