I choose this video because the more I have researched this topic, the more I am beginning to realize that there isn’t an easy answer. There is no one way to see the meaning of life. Some people look at the meaning of life through religious eyes, while other people look at the meaning of life from a survivor’s point of view. There are people who feel they on earth to help other person out, which actually goes into a separate argument. It is an interesting video because it has those different races and ethnic backgrounds and I think that also has an effect on the way a person reviews the meaning of life, along with the way that they were raised. This video also goes into different locations across the United States. It doesn’t say whether the people have different education levels, or whether or not they have taken a philosophy class, but I would put a few of their comments in my final paper. There were some good ideas that were floated around and some ideas that I haven’t heard or read about yet.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Blog #2: My Final Choice
My choice for my final topic is going to be chapter 13: The Meaning of Life. I have a lot of questions and I am looking forward to learning more about my place here on earth. Listed below are a few of the different links that I will be using to get more information on my topic.
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue59/59question.htm
This is a compilation of ideas from the philosophy now website. The most interesting comment had to be the “short and sweet” idea of Tim Bale from London. He writes “the meaning of life is not being dead.” Such a simple concept and it almost sounds sarcastic; however, as I put more thought into it, it I began to understand his point of view. If you’re dead you are going to be helping people, or doing any of God’s work. I also liked Greg Studen’s view when he talks about internal and external factors motivating the meaning of life.
http://www.allaboutworldview.org/Meaning-Of-Life.htm
Although this site seemed to be a biased site to leaning more towards religion and almost sounding like it was recruiting me to go to church it actually had some pretty interesting thoughts. It breaks down the meaning of life with God and the meaning of life without God. The meaning of life without God was funny because it says we are like bugs, and without God we have no chance at a life after death. Completely biased site now that I think about it, but it could be useful when I look at it from a religious point of view.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/
I liked this link because it breaks down the meaning of life, as well as breaking down the meaning of “meaning.” That is also something that I never really put much thought into. They break down the argument between a meaningful life and a moral life, and how they are different. As I read further into it, they have a few other arguments that I am looking forward to digging into.
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue59/59question.htm
This is a compilation of ideas from the philosophy now website. The most interesting comment had to be the “short and sweet” idea of Tim Bale from London. He writes “the meaning of life is not being dead.” Such a simple concept and it almost sounds sarcastic; however, as I put more thought into it, it I began to understand his point of view. If you’re dead you are going to be helping people, or doing any of God’s work. I also liked Greg Studen’s view when he talks about internal and external factors motivating the meaning of life.
http://www.allaboutworldview.org/Meaning-Of-Life.htm
Although this site seemed to be a biased site to leaning more towards religion and almost sounding like it was recruiting me to go to church it actually had some pretty interesting thoughts. It breaks down the meaning of life with God and the meaning of life without God. The meaning of life without God was funny because it says we are like bugs, and without God we have no chance at a life after death. Completely biased site now that I think about it, but it could be useful when I look at it from a religious point of view.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/
I liked this link because it breaks down the meaning of life, as well as breaking down the meaning of “meaning.” That is also something that I never really put much thought into. They break down the argument between a meaningful life and a moral life, and how they are different. As I read further into it, they have a few other arguments that I am looking forward to digging into.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Blog #1: MY TOP 2 Choices for my final project!
My first choice for the top 2 is chapter 13: The Meaning of Life. We play this game called life every day, but how often do we really sit down and think of the reasons that we play it? If you asked people this question what type of answers would they give you; wealth, fame, fortune, family? Would people kill themselves if they knew they had a meaning or a purpose to their life? I always wanted to know the answers to these burning questions and maybe in finding an answer, I can learn more about myself and my purpose here on earth as well. I think we all have ways to help each other and the environment but we just don’t feel it is our duty to do it. I believe that the meaning of life and finding happiness has to do with helping others and I would be extremely interested to find out the truth. It is the front runner right now for my final topic.
Some links I found:
http://www.meaningsoflife.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/meaning1.htm
Could a machine think is probably a distant second right now. I work with computers and I know there are people that still believe computers will take over the world someday. My immediate answer is that a machine can only do what a person tells it or programs it to. Also the Descartes argument that a sign of intelligence is the ability to understand and respond to language and a machine cannot do that (without being programmed to anyways). It would be interesting to continue to look deeper at this from both sides of the argument keeping an open mind and an unbiased approach.
Some links I found:
http://www.meaningsoflife.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
http://users.aristotle.net/~diogenes/meaning1.htm
Could a machine think is probably a distant second right now. I work with computers and I know there are people that still believe computers will take over the world someday. My immediate answer is that a machine can only do what a person tells it or programs it to. Also the Descartes argument that a sign of intelligence is the ability to understand and respond to language and a machine cannot do that (without being programmed to anyways). It would be interesting to continue to look deeper at this from both sides of the argument keeping an open mind and an unbiased approach.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
1st Post: What do I think Philosophy Means?
This is my first post for Philosophy class and I am excited to see how this blog will work out. I believe that Philosophy is the study of wisdom or the love of finding wisdom. I am hoping that my blog is going to be exciting and full of wisdom for all of the people out there that are going to be reading this. I will try and spice it up for you as much as possible. Good bye for now!
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