September 2008
10 posts
Conditions
What good does it do to set up conditions in which something may never apply?
Why is it important to discus things that have been isolated to a certain set of conditions that may never apply? For example if i suggest that, if we ignore the laws of gravity, it is immoral to fly. the laws of gravity will always apply so there will never be a situation where this could be an possibility but it is...
Deeds Done
if someone does a good deed for a bad reason it it considered a bad action?
this is a very typical ethical question asked of philosophy students. Does it make you think as much as it makes me? Hears an interesting idea… try not thinking about it. I promise it will creep up into your day. If not directly, you’ll questions someone’s motives at least once and it will trigger.
To Some Extent...
In my informal logic class we often talk about the principle of moderate charity and often end up discussing how far we are obliged to reason someone else’s logic. Well it occurred to me that perhaps this principle is not something unique to informal logic debates. The principle of moderate charity suggests that unless we have prior reason to, we should not attribute bad reasoning to...
Being Let Down...
If you will excuse the terrible pun, today’s question was inspired from an article my sister sent me about David Blaine…
http://gawker.com/5053757/david-blaine-cheater
In short the article says that David Blaine is a cheater because he appeared to say he will hang upside down for 60 hours without being let down but what he actually said was he will hang upside down for 60 hours.
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I will never know...
if someone asked you to do something but would never find out if you did it or not and you don’t agree with it do you do it? What if it is their final request?
I love Football season!
Never really understood how much fun it was until I got to College but now I cant live without it.
Early Morning Wake Ups?
why is it that every time I plan to wake up just 15 minutes before I normally do, i inevitably sleep an extra 30 minutes?
Which is Worse?
is it worse to be indifferent or to care but force your views upon someone else?
Long time...
I know I haven’t posted in a while but in fairness I did have a few weeks off from school so technically I wasn’t a student. Would it have been right to blog under “blog of a student” if I wasn’t a student? or is it just a title… or perhaps it is larger than that. We are all students all the time are we not? our life education is never over is it?