Thursday, March 2, 2017
Thursday classes
Early Modern Philosophy class this morning we discussed Schopenhauer and for the quiz question I asked something like is it right for me to discourage people from studying philosophers who are discouraging? For Introduction to Philosophy this afternoon we discussed Spinoza and the question I asked for the quiz was do you think his proposition number 15 is correct? For this evening's Introduction to Philosophy class the first quiz question today we did Hobbes and the quiz question concerns the rights you think we should consider necessary for our social contract. How do you think the health care issues should play out in our national discourse? Is health care a right that should be supported by the government? The second half we discussed Spinoza and the question I asked for the quiz was do you think his proposition number 15 is correct?
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Spinoza
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a. Health care in our national discourse. Should be regulated by the Federal government in away that lowers cost to all consumers and prevents the price gauging by the medical heath insurance, pharmaceuticals and all medical provider companies. In fact the cost should be lowered so much that personal medical insurance is no longer needed other than liability insurance. Of course this would all-so require the American Dollar to be worth more like when it was still under the gold standard. There is no other reason other than greed and inflation why medicine that cost $70.00 dollars 7 years ago should cost over $700.00 today. the American dream is slowly turning into the American night mare financially.
b. Health care in its current system is going to fail the American people as cost keep sky rocketing. Health care will come down to the haves and have naughts. The quandary is that government on one hand should pay for health care out of a heath care tax under a heavily regulated medical heath system to remove high cost from health care system, how ever, with private enter the prizes will not stand for this in a free market system. So there will be no Government run health care system that fits all and would be so huge that the cost would be more than the country could afford. On the other end We live in a free market system that is so power-full that the government can not enforce its own regulations even if they did exist to lower heath care cost. As far as health care being a right, no it is not a right for free health care for there is no real support for such a system. How ever, Government in the interest of public health should, force the medical industrial complex to lower prices of all medical and dental care to all consumers so that profits can be made by volume and not over absorbent pricing of a medical procedure, bed-sheets and tong depressors, let alone over expensive medications.
Hobbs
2. Our social contract" Nature Ad-hordes A Vacuum" (Star Trek's Mrs Spock 1960s) there is no space that there is nothing there unless you are looking at the mind of contempt which refuses to believe in how things really are regardless if all there is is a perception from God of or Nature of the Universe let alone the Human mind can fathom. one must accept the sun will come up tomorrow with us or with out us for if it does not then that will be the end of the human experience or the grand illusion. Then all will know very quickly the "great unknown mystery" (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1990s. As for our social contract it is not played out yet and we may still yet have hope that human kind will evolve out of our infancy and work together to make a better world for all.