my next course is philosophy...
im pretty excited about it. i thought you all (intelligent people excluding lambchop) would appreciate some questions that are asked everyday but are not really thought about enough!
critical thinkers check-in!
• To what extent do we have a moral obligation to people we don’t know? For
that matter, to what extent do we have a moral obligation to nonhuman living
things? How about the environment: do we have a moral obligation to it?
• What are the ethically legitimate functions and scope of government? What
form of government is best? What is the proper connection between religion
and the state? Questions like these separate Democrats from Republicans,
conservatives from liberals, communists from capitalists, and theocrats from
democrats.
• Do people have natural rights? If so, how do we know that? Where do they
come from? What makes one person’s list of rights superior to another
person’s?
• Is there a God? Perhaps just as important, Does it make any difference
whether there is or isn’t a God?
• Do ends justify means?
• What, if anything, is the self? Is a person more than a physical body? Do
people really have free will?
• What is truth? Beauty? Art?
• Is it possible to know anything with absolute certainty?
• Does the universe have a purpose? Does life? Is there order in the cosmos
independent of what the mind puts there?
• What is time?
• Could anything have happened before the Big Bang?