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2005/07/23 15:49:38 PST by ajames

Quote from Dr3w:

NOBODY READ THIS POST!!!
Even if we have control of our own lives, the physical world is deterministic, which means every event has a cause to its effect. It is plausible that in terms of our decision-making, we can assume that we ourselves are the causes of our actions. Although most of us humans, I would suggest, prefers to think that we have free will, there's a problem that it exists in a deterministic world....blah blah blah

There, I was trying to examine how free will may exist in a determined world, even in soft determinism. I would like to go further about this matter, yet I do believe that there's no such thing as determined and undetermined universe. I feel that there's a mixture of both world....

/shrug. I don't know I may perhaps just ended up doing Free will vs Determinism, or just examining those two....I doubt I will even write about this paper since I tend to change topics on the very last day of doing it...it's becoming a habit ^_^...

wow this is long and rambling and does very little to the end of saying anything. i'll put a note at the top...

Dear Andrew,

If you are interested in writing about freewill and determinism, Kant raises this problem and attempts to solve it in his Prolegomena (see pages 73-82).

Yours,

Alex

2005/07/23 15:51:01 PST by ajames
Edited at 2005/07/23 15:53:00 PST

Quote from Kelley:

I am still deciding between two possible topics.

The packets we have been reading written by Kierkegaard's psudonyms about Christianity and Chistendom have greatly interested me. I plan to read parts of the New Testament, as well, to gain a better understanding of Kierkegaard's arguments.

The other topic I am considering is Free Will/ Determinism. If I were to choose this topic, I might use Hume's Of Liberty and Necessity. Alex, if you know of any other sources I could use for this topic, could you let me know?

Thanks.

Dear Kelley,

As I told Andrew, if you are interested in writing about freewill and determinism, Kant raises this problem and attempts to solve it in his Prolegomena (see pages 73-82).

Yours,

Alex

2005/07/24 07:17:39 PST by Dr3w

Thanks Mr. James, I'm currently trying to analyze Kant's point of view. This is really helping =)

2005/07/24 18:55:10 PST by admin

Question for Mr. Alex James: In what work does (Rudolf) Carnap discuss his theory of nonsense? The only piece in the reader is the one by Cora Diamond, and I have had no luck searching online (I get info on Carnap, but not involving nonsense). Thanks!

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2005/07/24 20:02:47 PST by ajames

Dear Rachid,

I apologize if I didn't make this clear in class. Carnap’s paper "The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language" is on pages 358-374 of your reader. Diamond's essay "What Nonsense Might Be" is on pages 449-460. Enjoy.

Alex

2005/07/25 17:14:25 PST by macaulayculkin

Sorry it took so long for me to get around to posting this. I was a little unsure of what, exactly, I would be writing about.
Anyhow, my topic is Nietzsche's alleged anti-semitism, or rather lack thereof, and how his work was misused by the Nazis.
I've been reading a book on Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann, which has been useful.
Any suggestions are welcome.

2005/07/26 17:42:22 PST by Christina

I really had very little of an idea of what i was doing until today. I've been working on a thesis, and so far this is what i have come up with, although it will undoubtedly change:

Kierkegaard used the Socratic method in an attempt to compell people to examine their relationship to Christ and God's Word. Why did he think this was the best approach, and how is his message relevant today?

So the purpose of the paper is to analyze how Kierkegaard used Socrates' indirect method of communication and what his justification is for using it, and then to further explore how Kierkegaard's methods and views can apply to different aspects of our present world.

Help?