Introduction Before taking this class, I had never taken any other philosophy class. Since I had not taken any other philosophy classes, I did not know what to expect. Being a 400 level class, I felt that it would be extremely difficult for a first philosophy class. However, I did not find it to be that difficult at first. The first half of the semester was fairly easy because I had previous knowledge in the areas we covered. The second half of the semester on the other hand was a different story. I had no prior knowledge of the areas we covered, and the readings were more difficult to understand due to the higher vocabulary used. The following sections (Ethics, Metaphysics, Religion, Epistemology, and Anthropology) represent the areas we
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His concepts of “Just” and “Unjust” laws were interesting to me. My interpretation of this is to determine what is “Fair” and “Unfair.” Growing up in the 1990s, I did not really face that many “racial” problems. However, in today’s society, it is becoming more of an issue. I constantly see on the news about riots starting from racial comments and actions. The biggest racial conflict that has recently happened is the saying “Black Lives Matter.” It may not seem that bad of a saying at first but many people are in an uproar about it. I think it is ridiculous because every life matters. I just do not understand why it matters what color of skin a person has to translate into whether or not his/her life matters. Being raised in a Christian household, it is very hard for me to put someone down and discriminate just because the skin color is …show more content…
Coming from the PowerPoint slides, this is the “Long possessed pieces of knowledge about things [I] have learned and [how I] know. It is still possible to get to know the same things again, by the process of recovering the knowledge.” To me, this is no different than short-term and long-term memory. I can learn about something and then at some point in time, go back on that experience or knowledge to do another task. I use this process every day in school, especially in math classes. Math is one of my strongest subjects in school, and it is probably one of the hardest for many students to understand. Math was one of those subjects that continued to build on top of itself and got more complex as I moved forward. My senior year of high school, I took AP Calculus and AP Physics, which deals with a lot of math. When I got to college, I still had to take math courses for my major, and I had to recall things from junior high that I had not seen in years. After knocking off the rust, I quickly remembered how to do the problems. Although I do not suffer from it, there are people out there that cannot remember certain parts of experiences. I think this would be horrible to experience. Sometimes, it is hard enough to remember what happened earlier in the week, let alone not remembering who my family
His concepts of “Just” and “Unjust” laws were interesting to me. My interpretation of this is to determine what is “Fair” and “Unfair.” Growing up in the 1990s, I did not really face that many “racial” problems. However, in today’s society, it is becoming more of an issue. I constantly see on the news about riots starting from racial comments and actions. The biggest racial conflict that has recently happened is the saying “Black Lives Matter.” It may not seem that bad of a saying at first but many people are in an uproar about it. I think it is ridiculous because every life matters. I just do not understand why it matters what color of skin a person has to translate into whether or not his/her life matters. Being raised in a Christian household, it is very hard for me to put someone down and discriminate just because the skin color is …show more content…
Coming from the PowerPoint slides, this is the “Long possessed pieces of knowledge about things [I] have learned and [how I] know. It is still possible to get to know the same things again, by the process of recovering the knowledge.” To me, this is no different than short-term and long-term memory. I can learn about something and then at some point in time, go back on that experience or knowledge to do another task. I use this process every day in school, especially in math classes. Math is one of my strongest subjects in school, and it is probably one of the hardest for many students to understand. Math was one of those subjects that continued to build on top of itself and got more complex as I moved forward. My senior year of high school, I took AP Calculus and AP Physics, which deals with a lot of math. When I got to college, I still had to take math courses for my major, and I had to recall things from junior high that I had not seen in years. After knocking off the rust, I quickly remembered how to do the problems. Although I do not suffer from it, there are people out there that cannot remember certain parts of experiences. I think this would be horrible to experience. Sometimes, it is hard enough to remember what happened earlier in the week, let alone not remembering who my family