Philosophy of Mind/Happiness (2 Viewers)

[Ennaybur]

ITT is anyone who is doing the happiness or mind essays due next week

yuk, i can't find anything on the happiness one i want to do (is happiness intrinsically good; sadistic voyeurs etc)

 

[Ennaybur]

to add to my rant/thread that no one will read, why does he have the chinese room and blockhead questions but no china brain :\

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

im gonna do this subject

 

[Ennaybur]

this thread has delivered

 

[bazookajoe]

next week wat?
I thought Mind got pushed back

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

im gonna do this subject

Me too.

My Moral Psychology essay is due on the 6th May. I'm tempted to do the one on Evil but I'll have to wait until next week cos the lecturer won't be covering it till then. Otherwise I'll do the one on Motives and Reasons.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

I hate the way all the lecturers and tutors and crap won't answer our questions because they're in senior courses.

gh3y.

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

I hate the way all the lecturers and tutors and crap won't answer our questions because they're in senior courses.

gh3y.

kekeke. ^_^

 

[Silver Persian]

I'm doing phil happiness

Essay is done, although still needs editing.

The essay question you pixked looks like the hardest one to find source for. Pick another

 

[Ennaybur]

you've done it already? fuck :|

i'm starting mine now...wooo

- nah i was giong to but now i think i'm sticking with this one. I went to two tutes on teh same thing :s so i have an idea. although the tutor said that i coudl use the lecture as a reference (idk about that crazy idea) and that i'd only really need a couple of refs.

we'll see how it goes.


ihpf: what are the questions you get to choose from?

 

[Ennaybur]

i wish they had a philosophy wikipedia :\

 

[Ennaybur]

I know those sites, but afaik they don't do dumbed down, awesome summaries of huge concepts... do they?

 

[Ennaybur]

I am going to cliffnotes some aristotle shit though, woo.

 

[Ennaybur]

LOOK, BASICALLY I JUST WANT A SITE THAT I CAN COPYPASTA WHAT I HAVE TO WRITE okkk?



this thread is now about crazy things i've come across in my travels of writing this essay

-Mill’s education at the hands of his imposing father, James Mill, fostered both intellectual development (Greek at the age of three, Latin at eight)...

 

[Ennaybur]

don't

I love Mill

edit: Jnr.. not that rapist Snr

 

[Silver Persian]

Enny did you come to a happiness tute you've never been to before and make mindmaps :< And I think your hair was kinda dyed pink?

 

[Ennaybur]

hahahaha yes

but no, no pink
it does look sort of emo though

 

[Ennaybur]

-Mill takes intuitionism to be dangerous because it allegedly enables people to ratify their own prejudices as moral principles—in intuitionism, there is no “external standard” by which to adjudicate differing moral claims

-Inspired by Comte, Mill finds an alternative to traditional religion in the Religion of Humanity, in which an idealized humanity becomes an object of reverence and the morally useful features of traditional religion are supposedly purified and accentuated. Humanity becomes an inspiration by being placed imaginatively within the drama of human history, which has a destination or point, namely the victory of good over evil.




edit:btw silver persian, who are YOU?

 

[Ennaybur]

- This is a shit site:
http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/about/ethics-and-morals/

 

[Ennaybur]

Bentham raises an interesting point here:

The utility of all these arts and sciences … is exactly in proportion to the pleasure they yield. Every other species of preeminence which may be attempted to be established among them is altogether fanciful. Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Everybody can play at push-pin; poetry and music are relished only by a few. The game of push-pin is always innocent: it were well could the same always be asserted of poetry. Indeed, between poetry and truth there is a natural opposition: false morals and fictitious nature. … If poetry and music deserve to be preferred before a game of push-pin, it must be because they are calculated to gratify those individuals who are most difficult to be pleased.