Thursday, February 9, 2017
Thursday classes
For Early Modern Philosophy this morning I forgot to turn on the camera so did not record the lecture! Sorry! We talked about Bishop Berkeley and his contemporaries - Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Swift, Leibniz, Newton, Shaftesbury, and the philosophy of British Idealism. There were two interesting questions that came up. One in response to Edwards as an early American Philosopher influenced by Berkeley was what does it mean to be saved? Have you ever been Saved? What do you mean by that? Deborah Hatheway was the person who received the famous letter. But a second question that is the famous one associated with Berkeley is if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it fall, does it make a sound? So two quiz questions for today. For Introduction to Philosophy this afternoon the quiz question question is what does it mean to be a Christian? In my evening double session of Introduction to Philosophy the first quiz question was which of the philosophies that I briefly described do you think is closest to your conception of Eudaimonia? The second quiz question was what does it mean to be a Christian?
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Eudaimonia As you said in the announcements means flourishing. Flourishing could simple be an act of success, having many followers and spreading though out the lands. Doing well, living well is good flourishing.
ReplyDeleteTo be a Christen is to act and walk like Christ's in his manner of teachings. To be kind and not spiteful and full of hate. To live a good life but not at the expense of thy neighbor. Cherish each day and all that is in nature and in the good of society despite all of societies pitfalls that trap so many into an illusion of a good life but at high costly effects.
Yes on both.
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