Mr. White's PHILOSOPHY, LAW and SOCIAL SCIENCES Blog: Grade 12 Philosophy Homework for September 15th

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All homework assigned is subject to a potential pop quiz. Any and all homework that was assigned prior to the day of the pop quiz is subject to a potential pop quiz. It is possible that I will quiz you on homework assigned weeks before. It is therefore mandatory that students always bring all their completed homework to class each and every class from the beginning of the course without exception. Students may refer to their homework notes when answering a pop quiz question. The nature of the questions chosen for the pop quiz will be straight forward; i.e. a student asserting that he or she did not understand the question chosen for the pop quiz will not be a valid reason for not completing the pop quiz.

Emmanuel Levinas

There is first the very uprightness of the face, its upright exposure, without defense. The skin of the face is that which stays most naked, most desitute. It is the most naked, though with a decent nudity. It is the most desitute also:there is an essential poverty by putting on poses, by taking on a countenance. The face is exposed, menaced, as if inviting us to an act of violence. At the same time the face is what forbids us to kill. Ethical subjectivity dispenses with the idealizing subjectivity of ontology, which reduces everything to itself. The ethical 'I' is subjectivity precisely insofar as it kneels before the other, sacrificing its own liberty to the more primordial call of the other...The heteronomy of our response to the human other, or God as the absolutely other, precedes the autonomy of our subjective freedom. As soon as I acknowledge that it is 'I' who am responsible, I accept that my freedom is anteceded by an obligation to the other.

John Locke

If I find that I can know some few things, and some of them, or all perhaps imperfectly, I can frame an idea of knowing twice as many; in which I can double again, as often as I can add to Number, and thus enlarge my idea of Knowlege, by extending its comprehension to all things existing, or possible. The same I can also do of knowing them more perfectly; i.e., all their qualities, powers, causes, consequences, and relations, etc., till all be perfectly known, that is in them, or can in any way relate to them, and thus frame the idea of infinite and boundless knowledge. Existence, Power, Wisdom, and all other perfection (which we can have any idea of) to that Sovereign Being, which we call God, being all boundless and infinite.

Immanuel Kant

We ought to strive to bring about the supreme good (perfect justice). Because we ought to bring about this supreme good, it must be possible for it to exist...But the supreme good is possible in the world only if there exists a Supreme Being who can bring about a world in which happiness is correlated with moral goodness. Now a being that is capable of bringing about a just world as the moral law requires, is an intelligence (a rational being). And a being that acts according to the requirements of moral law, has a will. Therefore, the supreme creator of the world, whose existence must be supposed if the sumum bonum is possible, is a Being who causes the world by His intelligence and will...that is, God.

Soren Kierkegaard

Jeremy Bentham

I recognize, as the all-comprehensive, and only right and proper end of Government, the greatest happiness of the members, of the community in question: the greatest happiness of all fo them, without exception, in so far as possible: the greatest happiness of the greatest number of them, on every occassion on which the nature of the case renders provision of an equal quantity of happiness for every one if them impossible: it being rendered so, by its matter of necessity, to make sacrifice of a portion of the happiness of a few, to the greater happiness of the rest.

Charles Taylor

The thesis is that our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence, or by misrecognition of others, and so a person or a group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if people or society around them mirror back to them confining or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. In order to understand the close connection between identity and recognition, we have to take into account a crucial feature of the human condition...This crucial feature if human life is its fundamentally dialogical character. We become fully human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence defining our identity, through our aquistion of rich human languages of expression. People do not aquire the languages needed for self-definition on their own. Rather we are introduced to them through interaction with others who matter to us.

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