When we pursue a college education today we are overwhelmed with the many different college choices and picking the right one that will benefit our needs to the fullest. We also have to come to a decision on what do we want to major in and what courses are involved to accomplish that objective. I haven’t ever thought that I would be attending college so late in my life but here I am. I have definitely found that since I graduated high school back in 1988 I had lost a lot of the knowledge on the different subjects that I am facing in the program I am in right now. But it is all coming back very quickly and I am proud of the accomplishments that I have made so far in working towards this degree. I decided to take this course because like history
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Once that week was finished we got started with our first forum on Abortion and Egoism which I had wrote a paper on abortion in my Human Sexuality class. I decided to tackle egoism and found it to be very interesting especially the part about Pluto’s book 2 of Republic mentioning a mythical and magical object which empowered the owner to go invisible at will. In Gyges’ Ring Socrates tells the story of a man named Glaucon who discovers the magical ring having the power to make him invisible. The feedback that I received on the topic was more than helpful to help me understand what the Gyges’ Ring was really meant for to support egoism. Aristotle’s distinction between Theoretical Knowledge and Practical Knowledge was a little challenging to grasp but when I read about is hypothesis it started to become clear and it was some degree like Confucius’ hypothesis of morality for morality’s …show more content…
Broyles. The discussions that I had during the forums were so beneficial that it helped me to better understand the topic at hand. During the fourth week I tackled the concept of ‘Just Society’ and indulged myself in John Stuart Mill and his famous essay entitled ‘Utilitarianism’ published in 1861. He advocated the second view wherein people making the decision attended to the common good and where citizens worked collectively to build communities and programs that would be beneficial and would contribute to the good of others. Mill also argued that achievement of goals and ends by the people in general such as ‘virtuous living’ should be an aspect of their happiness. I think that one of the most interesting topics we talked about during this class was the topic on moral worth and how we determine if our what is right actions have moral worth. This discussion took us into the realm of Kant’s beliefs and I think that a lot of people got confused during this topic because of the feedback that I received from others class mates stating that Kant believed it was important for his principle of moral worth because humans are both sensible and intellectual and need rules of
Once that week was finished we got started with our first forum on Abortion and Egoism which I had wrote a paper on abortion in my Human Sexuality class. I decided to tackle egoism and found it to be very interesting especially the part about Pluto’s book 2 of Republic mentioning a mythical and magical object which empowered the owner to go invisible at will. In Gyges’ Ring Socrates tells the story of a man named Glaucon who discovers the magical ring having the power to make him invisible. The feedback that I received on the topic was more than helpful to help me understand what the Gyges’ Ring was really meant for to support egoism. Aristotle’s distinction between Theoretical Knowledge and Practical Knowledge was a little challenging to grasp but when I read about is hypothesis it started to become clear and it was some degree like Confucius’ hypothesis of morality for morality’s …show more content…
Broyles. The discussions that I had during the forums were so beneficial that it helped me to better understand the topic at hand. During the fourth week I tackled the concept of ‘Just Society’ and indulged myself in John Stuart Mill and his famous essay entitled ‘Utilitarianism’ published in 1861. He advocated the second view wherein people making the decision attended to the common good and where citizens worked collectively to build communities and programs that would be beneficial and would contribute to the good of others. Mill also argued that achievement of goals and ends by the people in general such as ‘virtuous living’ should be an aspect of their happiness. I think that one of the most interesting topics we talked about during this class was the topic on moral worth and how we determine if our what is right actions have moral worth. This discussion took us into the realm of Kant’s beliefs and I think that a lot of people got confused during this topic because of the feedback that I received from others class mates stating that Kant believed it was important for his principle of moral worth because humans are both sensible and intellectual and need rules of