Introduction to Philosophy

Today we finished up with Hume - so to speak - and then moved on to Kant and attempted to see if Kant answered Hume. We conclude that yes, he did. Metaphysics marches on banners waving and flags flying! So we look at Kant's "Copernican Revolution" in thought and come to realize that phenomena appears the way it does to us because of the nature of our minds. (I always think it is funny that this "revolution" is called Copernican since it is actually just the opposite and best expressed I think by the Einstein Cone. Since he views things categorically including morality - we have the categorical imperative - which leads to the first quiz question: what would be your moral imperative in this case? To intervene or not to intervene? Second part of this question: what do you imagine you would actually do? The second quiz question was to respond with what you think about Sam Harris' argument in this TED talk.