Philosophy is a disciple of learning that takes different kinds of thinking to understand. Understanding these complex concepts introduced in philosophy, opens the concepts to apply to every part of our life. Using paradoxes and puzzles introduced by people all around the world during many different times, allows us to understand fundamental social, and ethical issues that can still be applicable today. These thought experiments challenge our meaning of reality and provide an understanding as to why we think of something the way we do. They teach us to challenge natural science and to always ask why. One of the most interesting philosophers, to me, was Zeno. I guess the reason he stood out the most to me was the fact that no one has been
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These philosophers have opened the world to ideas like the string theory and the big crunch theory. The human mind is capable of so many amazing ideas and concepts, to shut that down just because there is already an accepted view seems like such a waste. After the discussion about Zeno, I watched a movie on Netflix called Mr. Nobody. This movie was so powerful for me and it struck me as so inspiring. It was about the big crunch theory and questioned if what we know as reality really isn’t reality. It goes into details to explain what we see and do and how our lives play out. Watching this movie after learning about Zeno, I was able to allow myself to be open to different concepts of reality. What is the reality of the world has more than one dimension? What are the other dimensions and how would they all work? My mind was never open to ideas like this, but after taking this class I find myself wanting to know more and exploring different, and sometimes unconventional, …show more content…
Every puzzle can be applied to things we see and experience every day, in our world, culture and our science. We can use fallacies and argumentative rules to work our way around these puzzles and paradoxes. So many of the puzzles we looked at in class could have either been challenged by a fallacy or the puzzle itself could have challenged the idea of the rule or fallacy. The realization that the issues brought up by these paradoxes and puzzles can pertain to issues in the modern age and time is an acquired skill taught by this class. You have to learn to appreciate things for more than face
These philosophers have opened the world to ideas like the string theory and the big crunch theory. The human mind is capable of so many amazing ideas and concepts, to shut that down just because there is already an accepted view seems like such a waste. After the discussion about Zeno, I watched a movie on Netflix called Mr. Nobody. This movie was so powerful for me and it struck me as so inspiring. It was about the big crunch theory and questioned if what we know as reality really isn’t reality. It goes into details to explain what we see and do and how our lives play out. Watching this movie after learning about Zeno, I was able to allow myself to be open to different concepts of reality. What is the reality of the world has more than one dimension? What are the other dimensions and how would they all work? My mind was never open to ideas like this, but after taking this class I find myself wanting to know more and exploring different, and sometimes unconventional, …show more content…
Every puzzle can be applied to things we see and experience every day, in our world, culture and our science. We can use fallacies and argumentative rules to work our way around these puzzles and paradoxes. So many of the puzzles we looked at in class could have either been challenged by a fallacy or the puzzle itself could have challenged the idea of the rule or fallacy. The realization that the issues brought up by these paradoxes and puzzles can pertain to issues in the modern age and time is an acquired skill taught by this class. You have to learn to appreciate things for more than face