Thursday classes

For Early Modern Philosophy today we discussed philosophers associated with the History of Thought as a contemporary example of Hegelian philosophy of our times. Starting with Isaiah Berlin and including Charles Taylor, Michael Ignatieff, and Frances Fukuyama, I also started the class reading today's article by George Will For the quiz question I asked if you think your education so far is preparing you for your future. Interesting discussion on this in class today! In Introduction to Philosophy this afternoon the topic was Existentialism and Kierkegaard, and Sartre. The quiz question today is what is on the other side of your leap of faith? For this evening's double session of Introduction to Philosophy we first discussed John Stewart Mill and the quiz question on Mill was a fill in the blank. Better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a (blank) satisfied. Then for part two we discussed the topic of Existentialism and Kierkegaard, and Sartre. The quiz question for the second half is what is on the other side of your leap of faith?