Help with philosophical questions

Metallica God · 06-12-04, 03:42 PM

please suggest some topics to talk about, I need to have 14 pages by monday I only have 8-9 right now, already talked about religion, space, etc. Need help thanks

Permanoob · 06-12-04, 04:14 PM

Cloning maybe.. ?

Metallica God · 06-12-04, 05:07 PM

hmm, I guess that could work, but then what are some of the specific thing could I mention?

johan851 · 06-12-04, 05:41 PM

How cloning is or is not completely unethical, wrong, etc.

Or discuss whether or not humans are bad by nature or simply born into a corrupt world.

SewerBeing · 06-12-04, 05:44 PM

I like the second idea johan851 brought up, you can bring in previous attemps to answer the question, and maybe form your own theory.

Sterculus · 06-12-04, 06:59 PM

Sorta tied in with religion you could do something on fate/free will I suppose. However, johan851's bad by nature/corrupt world ought to give you enough to fill those last few pages

Metallica God · 06-12-04, 07:56 PM

yeah I got 3 pages remaining, and the fate/free will idea or more correctly determinism versus free will has already been used before

dicecca112 · 06-12-04, 08:01 PM

having flashbacks of freshman college philo class ahhhh, anyway, what about reality, and what defines what actually is, ie what is treeness, can we trust our senses, ie matrixness.

Metallica God · 06-12-04, 08:58 PM

whats treeness?

dicecca112 · 06-12-04, 09:15 PM

the idea that the senses can't be trusted (plato I believe)and that our senses are what dictates what is real what is not.

Captain Newbie · 06-12-04, 09:17 PM

You could discuss academic honesty and ethics.

Tatuya · 06-12-04, 10:34 PM

Uh, we had to do a paper on civil disobedience and our stance on it, etc. (Relating it to the play "Antigone"). I guess you could also write about the idea of perfection/utopia and reference Sir Thomas More's Utopia and so on. Honestly, please summarize what you have because there are SO many ideas out there and philsophies.

Metallica God · 06-13-04, 05:48 PM

oh I like the utopia idea, but I dont know if I'll be able to get 2 pages from that, can you elaborate on that a bit please

It_The_Cow · 06-13-04, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Newbie

You could discuss academic honesty and ethics.

Heh. Clever.

Krowa 02 · 06-13-04, 07:03 PM

Have you thought about existance. I have heard a few times about how existance isnt possible without conciousness, so the universe may be aware of itself (might tie in with space though)

Theres a good book called the holographic universe about how the brain functions like a hologram, interesting theory.

Captain Newbie · 06-13-04, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by It_The_Cow

Heh. Clever.

Good to see that not everyone's asleep.

06-12-04, 03:42 PM	Thread Starter #1
Metallica God Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario	Help with philosophical questions please suggest some topics to talk about, I need to have 14 pages by monday I only have 8-9 right now, already talked about religion, space, etc. Need help thanks __________________ P5Q mb, E8500, Powercolor 6950 2gb, 2x2gb ocz pc6400, 250 gb hd, antec 900, Asus 24", etc. ____________________________ "Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - Megadeth
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Permanoob Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: SLC, UT	Cloning maybe.. ?
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06-12-04, 05:07 PM	Thread Starter #3
Metallica God Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario	hmm, I guess that could work, but then what are some of the specific thing could I mention? __________________ P5Q mb, E8500, Powercolor 6950 2gb, 2x2gb ocz pc6400, 250 gb hd, antec 900, Asus 24", etc. ____________________________ "Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - Megadeth
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06-12-04, 06:59 PM	#6
Sterculus Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle	Sorta tied in with religion you could do something on fate/free will I suppose. However, johan851's bad by nature/corrupt world ought to give you enough to fill those last few pages
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06-12-04, 07:56 PM	Thread Starter #7
Metallica God Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario	yeah I got 3 pages remaining, and the fate/free will idea or more correctly determinism versus free will has already been used before __________________ P5Q mb, E8500, Powercolor 6950 2gb, 2x2gb ocz pc6400, 250 gb hd, antec 900, Asus 24", etc. ____________________________ "Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - Megadeth
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06-12-04, 08:01 PM	#8
dicecca112 Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: MA, USA	having flashbacks of freshman college philo class ahhhh, anyway, what about reality, and what defines what actually is, ie what is treeness, can we trust our senses, ie matrixness.
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06-12-04, 08:58 PM	Thread Starter #9
Metallica God Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario	whats treeness? __________________ P5Q mb, E8500, Powercolor 6950 2gb, 2x2gb ocz pc6400, 250 gb hd, antec 900, Asus 24", etc. ____________________________ "Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - Megadeth
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06-12-04, 09:15 PM	#10
dicecca112 Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: MA, USA	the idea that the senses can't be trusted (plato I believe)and that our senses are what dictates what is real what is not.
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06-12-04, 10:34 PM	#12
Tatuya Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Crunching Einstein@Home	Uh, we had to do a paper on civil disobedience and our stance on it, etc. (Relating it to the play "Antigone"). I guess you could also write about the idea of perfection/utopia and reference Sir Thomas More's Utopia and so on. Honestly, please summarize what you have because there are SO many ideas out there and philsophies.
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06-13-04, 05:48 PM	Thread Starter #13
Metallica God Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario	oh I like the utopia idea, but I dont know if I'll be able to get 2 pages from that, can you elaborate on that a bit please __________________ P5Q mb, E8500, Powercolor 6950 2gb, 2x2gb ocz pc6400, 250 gb hd, antec 900, Asus 24", etc. ____________________________ "Don't ask what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you" - Megadeth
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06-13-04, 07:03 PM	#15
Krowa 02 Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Long Island New York	Have you thought about existance. I have heard a few times about how existance isnt possible without conciousness, so the universe may be aware of itself (might tie in with space though) Theres a good book called the holographic universe about how the brain functions like a hologram, interesting theory.
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