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Civil Disobedience

when it comes to civil disobedience it can be tricky to talk about but when it comes to people obeying the law it’s never 100 percent. I believe that rasicm is very big in general in the U.S. and one amendment that stands out is the 13th amendment and in all honesty it’s a way of taking people’s rights and voice away if you aren’t in the standards of the person who is convicting you. sadly, because of this many people have been wrongly incarcerated because of this law. I consider this amendment inhumane and it shouldn’t even exist because in the end when we’re dead we end up in a hole being decomposed the same exact way.

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Cosmological and Design Argument

When it comes to how the earth was made I believe that both science and God have a huge part in making the earth. However, God decided to make water, animals, people etc. science has always shown us a great mystery of how the earth came to be. Science didn’t just come to be, God gave people the mind and aspect to have an earth and have such amazing and different wonders in the world. In the end in my opinion God is the earth.

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Buddhism and the U.S.

As a person who lives in the U.S., especially in New York it isn’t easy to have much patience or to be too nice to people. as a New Yorker everyone is always in a rush and busy in order to get to where they’re going to. It difficult because in most cases people get pushed and so many people can be having such a bad day and just lash out on anyone who’s around them. In the end buddhism gives people a deeper meaning of knowing how your actions can affect others but when it comes to the U.S. any the city and sometimes even the suburbs it’s not the easiest.

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Design Argument

In my opinion, philosophy has a huge role of not only religion but just the world in general. I often find myself comparing philosophy to psychology, sociology and religion. Many times I see that philosophy has a tendency to talk about the way the world is and how people tend to think and what is wrong, right etc.

In most cases I do see many philosophers quote many stanzas of the Bible, such as Socrates and how he states that people are like sheep, that they follow what they believe. In many cases we see that people go to the religion that they believe in or just set their own belief system because not everyone believe in the Bible; I can see why some people don't because of history and just the fact that the Bible was created by man. In the end philosophy as a whole to me is based on not only religion but the way that people always have a belief system and that people believe in an entity higher than humans.

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Turing Test

When it comes to the programing of computers people base it on wires, how fast the computer should run, how not to have any glitches etc. but of course nothing is perfect, so in some ways yes humans and machines are kind of programed the same. No one is perfect, everyone do things different. Although when it comes to machinery many of them function the same and do the same things but they all have different programs. The biggest difference between people and machines is that everyone looks different, while machines would have multiple with the same look.

In the end we are “programed” differently than machines because we put in work, while machines are just built to work. We are human beings with a brain and emotions. Machines don’t have emotions, there just machines with wires and a program.

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Dualism

Descartes made valuable points on dualism that I agree with. an example of this would be how Descartes states that the brain and the body are two different entities and it seems to me that people even back then kind of knew that as well. When it came to some indigenous practices back then people would notice that the heart was still beating even though it was just ripped out of someone body, this pinpoints how the brain and body work together but definitely in separate ways. The body needs the brain to function but the brain functions in any body you place it in. Although, in the end the body can still function on it's own just like the brain.

No matter how people tend to acknowledge that the brain is a very important organ, doctors still managed to do brain transplants in order for people to just be physically be better when they have a tumor that isn't curable unless this process takes place. Descartes has shown that we can know our ways of our mind and sometimes our body but our mind is more self-sufficient because it’s always the same. what I can argue is that nature vs. nurture can kind of decipher that we don’t know anyone’s mind except the person themselves, unless they have a terrible mental illness. in the end Descartes made some very interesting points when it came to the mind and body not really fully needing each other.

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Empiricism

In all honesty, I’m majoring in psychology and I highly disagree with Empiricism. the reason behind this is because I have seen many cases where people just disregard nature vs. nurture. Emmanuel Knat shows many examples of nature vs. nurture and you can see from there that you can’t have either one or the other, you practically have a bit of both, although I do believe that Kant felt as if many people disregarded this, which isn’t fairly true, especially now. Empiricism is very vague and seems to not know fully well what he is observing. Empiricism stated that "our minds are a blank tablet." which is highly untrue. For staters even as infants we know we cry when we want to be fed, cleaned, hurt etc. this isn't something that we learned, we are born with this. Just even a bit of the oral stage, yes, we do explore and we learn to understand what hurts and what we shouldn’t put in our mouths, in some aspect this is where nature vs. nurture comes into play and yes we are taught that certain things are bad to put it your mouth but we learn it but once we are born we have that sense of always analyzing our surroundings, i.e. faces, voices etc. it is something that we are born with, and fully develop by experiences.

Empiricism is very close minded and doesn’t seem to see these things. It is as if they didn’t really analyze there theory properly. In the end I don’t really agree with Empiricism and their ideas. The time obviously has developed better but most people can agree that our nature is fully developed more by our nurture, basically that the way that we are if both scientific because of genetics but our experiences shape us to have a personality.

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Descartes and methodological skepticism

This week Descartes work has shown me that we honestly don’t think very much of our thoughts or actions. As a student and as a retail worker, I find it very difficult to acknowledge that our managers don't really think we’re “human”, in the sense that we have to always 100% do what they want and or say. As a student in college I've learned that as people we don’t really engage much in conversation because we’re just there for the class and our grade. As people with such advanced technology, we don’t really take a moment to see why we act a certain way or talk a certain way; we just simply have many ways of expressing our different aspects and views but not really think fully on it. 

Many times I've noticed that some people, yes, might be having a difficult day but they don’t really seem to care it you’ve been having one as well. In a way Descartes shows us that people can be a bit closed off and very selfish. In the end people always want to be right, even though methodological skepticism has shown me that people do doubt but never actually stop to think why. I as a person mostly think about why I doubt myself is when I overcome days with my anxiety or when something previously happened to me and I as myself “why didn’t I say this?” or “why didn’t/did do that?”. In many ways we do question ourselves but not so much others. This is what methodological skepticism has taught me about myself and others.

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This weeks reading

From what I gathered from the reading is that no one is wiser because if we didn’t question ourselves than what is the point of even basically living. The allegory cave is a way of representing of how blind we can be as people. We tend to follow peoples rules because they say so and we never actually question it. Socrates has shown his people that there is more to life than these rules and whether there ruler should stay in power or not; as he mentioned that God said he is the “wisest” man.

As people we have rules as in the law. Although, now we have more than one religion and more education. However, people who have more money in our class system still rule, so in this case history hasn’t changed but. People always question and have an opinion on many current events in todays society. This mainly a synopsis of what I've gathered from the reading.