Wednesday, September 28, 2011

September 28th Meeting

We started off by rereading the story from last week about the cheating wife who was stranded at the same bridge with the serial killer and all agreed that the Serial Killer was at fault for the woman's murder. After trying to find a new topic and ending up with confusion, we decided to start a small list for Philosophy club:
  • The first rule of Philosophy club is "Don't talk about Philosophy Club".
  • Only one person talks at a time
Mr. Amore suggested a philosophy sphere to be held by the one designated to talk at the time, and we took up a talking stick that didn't really get implemented.

When Ron came back, we went around the room with a list of topic for future meetings, and voted on the topic for today's meeting. Drug morality won (out of a 4 way tie) which led to questions detailing it:
  • What were we trying to answer?
  • What constitutes a drug?
While trying to narrow these down and branching off onto other topics (alcohol and prohibition, drug searches at school, morality versus safety), we encountered other questions:
  • What is moral? Is it the same as right and wrong? Relative to people? Societies?
  • What is absolute right or wrong in the universe?
I had to leave after that, but comment on what I missed and what's for next week
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  1. pr3m_ckSeptember 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM

    Next week, we're continuing the drug use debate and I'm emailing everyone a few articles relating to it. Also, we discussed absolutism vs. relativism for a while after you left and we disbanded at 3:15 pm.

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  2. Mr. AbudSeptember 28, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    Great job! This is a nice summary. One other important outcome was that we had to learn a little about the process of doing philosophy and discussion. This is a practice that involves getting at truths. It is not the same as mere discussion, nor conversation. We have to get the process down before we can really accomplish our tasks we established today. Practice with this will be ongoing and have some official guidelines. More to come next week.

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  3. Ramarao KannegantiOctober 5, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    I am reminded of my early forays into Philosophy through Subjective Idealism. [Ob joke: World Solipsists conference.]

    Of course, I advise caution into going in two direction. The first is relative value system. You find that there is no anchor for any statement that you can make. It is like arguing with a child.

    The other is definition game. It is like infinite recursion (Ob. joke: google recursion).

    I agree with Mr. Abud. You should try focusing on the framework: What premise you start with, what goal you seek, and what logic system you apply. You will find it quite interesting. For example, you think 2+2=4! What if I tell you that, there are people that believe 2+2 = 5? And, they are actually correct? (ask me why).

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