Today we started in the shop and finished our class with a visit from Professor Gideon Rosen to discuss our ZAMM reading.<\/p>\n
This discussion was focused on themes within the chapters of ZAMM but not necessarily direct relation to the narrator and Phaedrus.<\/p>\n
-What is philosophy?<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The love of wisdom. \u00a0 The attempt to say how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together. \u00a0 Aims to give a comprehensive picture of the world at a fundamental level. \u00a0 The description of philosophy sounds like the description of physics.<\/p>\n
-Hume and Kant.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 When you look at the world you see a constantly changing barrage of colored shapes. \u00a0 The melting ice cube at first you see a cubical solid and over time you see a change of shape. \u00a0 What starts off as cold is no longer cold. \u00a0 From moment to moment there is nothing constant about the melting ice cube, but something has remained the same. \u00a0 It has just changed form. \u00a0 Appearances are constantly changing but there is a single persistent constant.<\/p>\n
o \u00a0\u00a0 How do you know?<\/p>\n
o \u00a0\u00a0 Where do you get the idea that there might be something consistent despite the changing?<\/p>\n
– \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 With Hume and Kant god plays no role.<\/p>\n
o \u00a0\u00a0 Hume is a radical empiricist. \u00a0 Thinks all ideas come from experience. \u00a0 No innate idea. \u00a0 Hume is confused about where we get the idea of the thing that remains constant. \u00a0 He says we have no such idea. \u00a0 You can say the water was there at the beginning and at the end but you\u2019re just \u201cfeigning or pretending\u201d that there was something there. \u00a0 Verbal fiction.<\/p>\n
o \u00a0\u00a0 Kant thinks its obvious you do not just see an array of colored shapes unless you\u2019re \u201ctripping.\u201d \u00a0 You see things undergoing change. \u00a0 Kant says there\u2019s a raw matter of experience. \u00a0 The mind imposes structure on it. \u00a0 The mind constructs a world of persisting things that interact with physical laws. \u00a0 The world we experience is constituted by the mind. \u00a0 Kant\u2019s Copernican revolution.<\/p>\n
Think of your idea of what a motorcycle is. \u00a0 You conjure up a fuzzy picture of a motorcycle from a certain angle. \u00a0 But it\u2019d be a mystery to match up a motorcycle from head on as opposed to sideways. \u00a0 Thoughts aren\u2019t a stream of pictures. \u00a0 Concepts are not pictures, more like descriptions. \u00a0 Not matching experience with a picture, but if it satisfies some description. \u00a0 It would even be abstract.<\/p>\n
-Eastern vs Western Philosophy<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is eastern thought. \u00a0 Chinese word for philosophy had to be invented when translating western philosophy. \u00a0 Not from the basis of authority. \u00a0 Indian philosophy is more similar to western philosophy than Chinese or Japanese for cultural reasons.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Eastern and romantic link is from western romanticism from rational strands. \u00a0 People took for granted the aim of philosophy. \u00a0 They disagreed about what the fundamental bits of philosophy were<\/p>\n
-Electrons trajectory.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kant built his philosophy off the idea of innate ideas. \u00a0 Quickly was proven false.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Empirical measurement based on result. \u00a0 Polarized sunglasses at 45 degrees experiment shows how measurement changes the environment.<\/p>\n
-Socrates and universities as churches<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Church that is now a bar considered sacrilegious. \u00a0 Equated to university threatened to losing accreditation.\u00a0 The rebuttal being \u00a0i t\u2019s not about accreditation, its about the search for truth.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saying what a university is. \u00a0 You could be describing what all universities have in common or you could be saying what you think a university should be.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is worth preserving in universities?<\/p>\n
o \u00a0\u00a0 Creation of new knowledge and education for leadership.<\/p>\n
– \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mission should be to produce more educated people.<\/p>\n
Assignment for Thursday 8 March 2018:<\/p>\n
Read chapters 14 and 15 of ZAMM.<\/p>\n
Other things of note:<\/p>\n
20 Chrome parts were taken to the plater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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