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Hume believes that the self is an illusion or a fiction. What is his argument? Do you find it convincing? Why or why not? Hume argues that there is no self. Many former philosophers before him argued that there has always been this idea of self. The idea of self is well known in theContinue reading “Of Personal Identity: David Hume”

What does Descartes demonstrate with the wax example? How does it fit into his main argument for dualism? In short Descartes portrays that the wax can take on many different shapes and or forms however it will still remain as the same identity, which is wax. Therefore, during the class discussion we had mentioned theContinue reading “Meditations I & II (Part two): Descartes”

Descartes finally arrives at something he takes to be known with absolute certainty. What is it? How does he claim to know it? Do you think he has proven anything? What was the reading about: In my opinion, I feel as though Descartes decided to go over all of his beliefs and question them. HeContinue reading “Meditations I & II”

The reading states that there are a group of men held in shackles in a cave. Being that they are restrained, they are only allowed to see the wall in front of them. The fire that is behind them allows for the individuals to see shadows. Since they have been born and raised this wayContinue reading “Plato’s: Allegory of the Cave”

To summarize, The Will to Believe by James Williams he describes beliefs as options. With that bing said he described three different types of options. The three options are live, forced or momentous. To briefly describe a live option one can view it as subjective. Meaning that the person has to be able to connectContinue reading “James- The Will to Believe”

When reading Clifford’s position on Ethics of Beliefs i thought to myself two things. The first thought that came to mind was, “how is Clifford making his argument” or and recognizing his arguments. The second thought I had was how to relate the reading to our previous teachings on fallacies. Well first i’d like toContinue reading “Clifford’s Argument:”

The Class Activity: On the first day of Philosophy class we were given a prompt. The prompt, in short, stated for us (the students) to think of a time of when we, ourselves, had faced injustice. After thinking long and hard i finally decided to mention the time that I was raped. Without getting intoContinue reading “Injustice:”