Introduction to Philosophly lectures 17 and 18 evening

This Friday evening we first discussed Plato's Timaeus, Aquinas' four ways (Cosmological), and tied that in to a discussion on Charater and Flourishing bewteen David Brooks and Miroslav Volf at Yale. The video is here. The quiz question was how does religion make someone good? Glad everyone seemed interested in the comparison with The Nightmare Before Christmas. We next discussed we discussed the Hume - Kant sequence all the way to David Foster Wallace and his meta meta questioning of the meaning of life. Where is the reality that restrains us? As one said in class it just opens up a rabbit hole - not only in our conversations but in what contemporaries talk about. I mentioned the new book Fantasyland. The video from the same lecture made on Thursday is posted here. The quiz question was Would being drunk help you learn a foreign language? (Is there some mental barrier that prevents us from seeing things in other ways?)