September 14, 2012 — Kierkegaard, philosophy of religion Tagged analogy, belief, Kierkegaard, religious language
God is like a shamrock — small, green and split three ways.
Does the Trinity make any sense to you?
Oh, no. No, it makes no sense to anyone. That’s why you have to believe it. That’s why you have to have faith. If it made sense, it wouldn’t have to be a religion, would it?
September 6, 2012 — Genealogy, Nietzsche, Specified Text, Uncategorized
August 27, 2012 — Genealogy, Nietzsche, Specified Text Tagged Myths, Nietzsche, philosophy bites
Philosophy Bites 74: Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths
You also need to listen to the Philosophy: The Classics podcast on Rousseau and answer the questions (below) I gave you in class.
April 29, 2012 — higher level, standard level, the core theme, Uncategorized Tagged exam
this isn’t by me, but I just noticed it on prezi… It’s good on how the exam works, don’t read into the other stuff too much…
April 17, 2012 — Big Questions, Descartes, dualism - mind/body, standard level, the core theme, Uncategorized Tagged core theme, Descartes, Dualism
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March 16, 2012 — consequentialism, ethics, standard level
but put more lucidly than this one often is:
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
- G K Chesterton
February 22, 2012 — Kantian ethics, standard level Tagged ethics, ib, Kant, moral regeneration, shameless
today we talked about ‘moral regeneration’ as a potential failing of Kant’s account of ethics… it is a difficult idea to really truly understand but watching this’ll help…. obviously the key outcome of the lesson is the logical inconsistency of Kant’s use of God, but if you would like to think more about whether an account of moral generation is required, watch shameless (series 9 episode 8 – on 4od today)
January 23, 2012 — consequentialism, ethics, Uncategorized Tagged utilitarianism
December 12, 2011 — Big Questions, Descartes, dualism - mind/body
Jones, Hayward & Cardinal pp213-8…
For Homework you need to update your Descartes notes with the rest of this reading…
We’ll begin our dualism filming as soon as…
The Question sheet is here:
November 24, 2011 — Big Questions, Descartes, the core theme, The Greeks Tagged core theme, Dualism, mind-body problem
This interview is available on Julian Baggini’s blog. I haven’t listened to it yet (but I have read the book which he used this interview as research for. It’s really good), so we’ll try something new for this. I need you to:
Listen to the interview and come up with your own set of discussion questions (and notes of answers). We’ll talk through them.
There aren’t a whole lot dualists about these days, so this interview will be invaluable in writing a balanced answer, should you ever decide to address this area.
