Kant's categorical imperative has always made sense to me. I have studied it a few times in my life, and in each instance compared to other philosophers he is one of the easiest to understand. With Kant, it always boils down to doing what we ought to do because it is what we know collectively is right. It is a simple answer to most of the ethical questions we have covered in this course, so having Kant for our first discussion was very beneficial for the class.
Darwinism and his idea of natural selection and his four empirical generalizations do make sense and we are able to relate each to specific examples. I do agree that there is genetic variation passed from our parents and varies species including animals. I do in fact believe the God placed us here including every creature and not science or the so called Big Bang Theory. Science and evolution are separate ideas and they are thought of as one entity. This is where I differ in opinion. Each side do pose good arguments but my faith holds strong in where we all come from and how the world was created. Intelligence and being about to survive does make sense and we are the product of our environment but it has nothing to do with how it all started.
The idea's of Sartre I found to be very persuasive and interesting. His ideas of us being free from everything except for freedom itself and the anxiety that causes us I think reign true in society today. I think his philosophies of human nature are accurate for society. I do not however agree with his atheist approach to after life.
I'm biased since I presented on the chapter, but the chapter on Darwinism was very interesting to me. I believe in evolution and I like how the book took into account social and psychological evolution, as well as physical. It is amazing how far we have come from measuring a person's intelligence by the size of his or her brain, to taking into account all kinds of intelligence whether it be social, emotional, etc. I had never thought about intelligence as something that was multi-dimensional, but I think this is important and helps us to value people for their strengths. Someone may not be really good at math but they may be able to sell something to a group of people very easily. That doesn't make their intelligence low, it just means their social intelligence is higher. This could get them a great job in sales and allow them to be very successful. The theories of evolution and natural selection play a large role in how I think about things that I am learning, especially in nursing so this chapter was extremely enjoyable for me.
i agree, this chapter stuck out to me as well. i believe in evolution as well and i have always just thought of it in a strictly biological sense. i never thought of the evolution of intelligence or the idea of it being multidimensional. i think you summed it all up very well. many of these chapters have been heavy for me to read, this was the only one that i felt i understood fairly well!
Kant's categorical imperative has always made sense to me. I have studied it a few times in my life, and in each instance compared to other philosophers he is one of the easiest to understand. With Kant, it always boils down to doing what we ought to do because it is what we know collectively is right. It is a simple answer to most of the ethical questions we have covered in this course, so having Kant for our first discussion was very beneficial for the class.
ReplyDeleteDarwinism and his idea of natural selection and his four empirical generalizations do make sense and we are able to relate each to specific examples. I do agree that there is genetic variation passed from our parents and varies species including animals. I do in fact believe the God placed us here including every creature and not science or the so called Big Bang Theory. Science and evolution are separate ideas and they are thought of as one entity. This is where I differ in opinion. Each side do pose good arguments but my faith holds strong in where we all come from and how the world was created. Intelligence and being about to survive does make sense and we are the product of our environment but it has nothing to do with how it all started.
ReplyDeleteThe idea's of Sartre I found to be very persuasive and interesting. His ideas of us being free from everything except for freedom itself and the anxiety that causes us I think reign true in society today. I think his philosophies of human nature are accurate for society. I do not however agree with his atheist approach to after life.
ReplyDeleteI'm biased since I presented on the chapter, but the chapter on Darwinism was very interesting to me. I believe in evolution and I like how the book took into account social and psychological evolution, as well as physical. It is amazing how far we have come from measuring a person's intelligence by the size of his or her brain, to taking into account all kinds of intelligence whether it be social, emotional, etc. I had never thought about intelligence as something that was multi-dimensional, but I think this is important and helps us to value people for their strengths. Someone may not be really good at math but they may be able to sell something to a group of people very easily. That doesn't make their intelligence low, it just means their social intelligence is higher. This could get them a great job in sales and allow them to be very successful. The theories of evolution and natural selection play a large role in how I think about things that I am learning, especially in nursing so this chapter was extremely enjoyable for me.
ReplyDeletei agree, this chapter stuck out to me as well. i believe in evolution as well and i have always just thought of it in a strictly biological sense. i never thought of the evolution of intelligence or the idea of it being multidimensional. i think you summed it all up very well. many of these chapters have been heavy for me to read, this was the only one that i felt i understood fairly well!
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