so lets help each other?
I can't be the only one surly?
How are you planning on righting it? Do you even plan it?
Friday, 27 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Free Will?
I was just thinking.
Free will, can it be applied to love?
These days people tend to have many relationships before they find 'the one' a lot of those will be choices from free will.
But when you do fall in love (your you think you have) surly that is against all free will and it just happens?
You can not help who you fall for.
It was just a small thought running through my mind at work thought i would post it and see what you thought of it.
Monday, 2 March 2009
Philosophyish
Earlier today in philosophy, some of you were saying that you wanted my iphone info, so the number is 07762794706. And my email on my iphone is graeme.franklin@yahoo.co.uk.
if you also put down your emails and phone numbers then we can more easily contact each other for things e.g. philosophy, because we aren't always at a computer able to use the blog, eh?
Do you approve Mr Nutbrown?
if you also put down your emails and phone numbers then we can more easily contact each other for things e.g. philosophy, because we aren't always at a computer able to use the blog, eh?
Do you approve Mr Nutbrown?
Monday, 23 February 2009
Just a thought on free will
I was just thinking, does God really have free will if he exists?
It has been said that due to God knowing what humans will do in the future we don't have free will. However, as God knows everything surely he also knows his own future, therefore discounting his ability to have free will himself, which in turn makes it impossible for him to be all powerful as you need to be able to have free will to be all powerful.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Essay on Reason
Just a reminder of the essay to write over half-term:
Can anything be known by reason alone?
Please do not make your essay a mere series of separate points. State your conclusion and then pursue a line of argument, incorporating counter-arguments and making reference to well-known positions or examples - eg Descartes. Use the textbook.
Can anything be known by reason alone?
Please do not make your essay a mere series of separate points. State your conclusion and then pursue a line of argument, incorporating counter-arguments and making reference to well-known positions or examples - eg Descartes. Use the textbook.
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Notes
Im typing it some notes, and there was a quote, " Without impressions, conception would be a blooming buzzing confusing." WHO THE HELL SAID IT ! i cant find it any where ?
Friday, 23 January 2009
Definitions
As no one else has posted apart from Graeme, I have taken it upon myself to do whatever possible to increase our knowledge of philosophy, starting with the basic definition of the word 'Philosopher', here are two different arguments for what the word means.
1. A student of or specialist in philosophy.
2. A fool who torments himself when alive to be remembered when dead.
Now I don't know about you guys but I am liking the thinking behind definition two.
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Philosophy Questions
I have nothing else to do at the moment so i thought i would find some interesting philosophical questions:
1) Can you prove to me that you are not figments of my imagination?
2) What is being?
3) If life is predestined, is there such thing as good and bad? Can you punish someone who did not chose to do something, but did it because someone decided that they would do it at the dawn of time?
What do you think?
Also, heres a link to some funny philosophical questions. http://aproposofnothing.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/a-few-philosophical-questions/
With exams coming up we could all do with a good laugh :D
1) Can you prove to me that you are not figments of my imagination?
2) What is being?
3) If life is predestined, is there such thing as good and bad? Can you punish someone who did not chose to do something, but did it because someone decided that they would do it at the dawn of time?
What do you think?
Also, heres a link to some funny philosophical questions. http://aproposofnothing.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/a-few-philosophical-questions/
With exams coming up we could all do with a good laugh :D
Thursday, 18 December 2008
Cause and effect
I've been thinking...
1) Everything is both a cause and an effect. There may be no original cause for something, but even that would be an event.
2) I am not sure who's theory this is but...if you could know the trajectories of EVERY atom in the ENTIRE universe, then you would be able to map out their future interactions and could therefore, predict the future. If you saw the future, would you have free will over it, if you saw yourself getting shot, would you be able to stop that from happening by not being there at the time? Or would it still happen somehow, even if you just get shot at a different location?
your thougts?
1) Everything is both a cause and an effect. There may be no original cause for something, but even that would be an event.
2) I am not sure who's theory this is but...if you could know the trajectories of EVERY atom in the ENTIRE universe, then you would be able to map out their future interactions and could therefore, predict the future. If you saw the future, would you have free will over it, if you saw yourself getting shot, would you be able to stop that from happening by not being there at the time? Or would it still happen somehow, even if you just get shot at a different location?
your thougts?
Friday, 12 December 2008
Exam Questions
Good news! You've got work to do. Below is a sample two-part exam question. Tbink about it and do some extra research using the links on this site.
Comment/ask questions/discuss here in the next few days before a SURPRISE EXAM on...one day soon. I will try to respond to any (sensible) questions. No bribes accepted. Yet.
Theme: Reason and experience
1 (a) Explain what is meant by a priori and explain one reason why the a priori is philosophically significant. (15 marks)
(b) ‘All ideas derive from the sense experiences which they copy.’ Discuss. (30 marks)
Comment/ask questions/discuss here in the next few days before a SURPRISE EXAM on...one day soon. I will try to respond to any (sensible) questions. No bribes accepted. Yet.
Theme: Reason and experience
1 (a) Explain what is meant by a priori and explain one reason why the a priori is philosophically significant. (15 marks)
(b) ‘All ideas derive from the sense experiences which they copy.’ Discuss. (30 marks)
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Babel Fish
So, GN told me to post something here, something intelligent. So here is my attempt at that...
In 'The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' there is a really good quote about how God cannot exist.
'Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.'
'The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."'
'"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."'
'"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.'
'"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.'
I think you can easily apply this to some of the other fascinating creatures and things on earth and in the universe, even ourselves. Discuss
In 'The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' there is a really good quote about how God cannot exist.
'Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.'
'The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."'
'"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."'
'"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.'
'"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.'
I think you can easily apply this to some of the other fascinating creatures and things on earth and in the universe, even ourselves. Discuss
Friday, 5 December 2008
Introducing Sapere Aude
Hello! You are probably here because you are an A Level Philosophy student at Nailsea School. If you aren't, welcome anyway.
The purpose of this blog is to allow students to ask and answer questions about the course and to continue discussions on the topics covered in class. You can discuss essays and exams, share useful information and links, help each other to revise and generally chat about Philosophy.
Sapere aude is Latin for "Dare to know" or "Have the courage to think". So, please be prepared to risk your thoughts on this site. And keep it polite!
To the right you will find links to various useful sites. Check them out. The AQA site includes sample papers and mark schemes, as well as the full specification. It's not too soon to look at an exam paper and to start practising. The UCAS site is there to help you research your university course options.
The purpose of this blog is to allow students to ask and answer questions about the course and to continue discussions on the topics covered in class. You can discuss essays and exams, share useful information and links, help each other to revise and generally chat about Philosophy.
Sapere aude is Latin for "Dare to know" or "Have the courage to think". So, please be prepared to risk your thoughts on this site. And keep it polite!
To the right you will find links to various useful sites. Check them out. The AQA site includes sample papers and mark schemes, as well as the full specification. It's not too soon to look at an exam paper and to start practising. The UCAS site is there to help you research your university course options.
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