Choose one question to respond to, or you can respond to what someone else has posted:
1. Meiland says there is no need to give good reasons for "why" in personal matters (p 1-9 line 14). Do you really think is always so?
2. According to Meiland, the questioning of everything is a subversive activity. Even Socrates knew that, but he continued seeking good reasons, and he was finally put to death. If you were Socrates, could you have behaved like him?
3. Meiland says college work has a direct connection with important aspects of "real" life (p 1-11 line 23). When do you feel the connection between college work and real life?
Group 2 Leaders:
Asuka M.
Haruna F.
Shunsuke N.
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I choose No1.
ReplyDeleteI agree with author's opinion because it is hard for us to give good reasons for "Why" in personal matters. Human has emotion and our act was often changed by our feeling so that we can't give good reasons for it. If we always give reasones for our "why" of act in personal matters, we will be tired to live.
For this reasons, We don't have to give good reasons for "why" in personal matters.
I choose No3.
ReplyDeleteI feel the connection between college work and real life when I am watching the news. There are a lot of professors who say their opinions in the news programs. If a famous professor said his opinion in the news program, I usually believed it. However, we are demanded to think critically and find good reasons before we believe something in college. So I came to think more critically after I became an university student.
I think this is the part of the connection between college work and real life.
I choose No1.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Meiland's opinion because people have a "why" only when they have a doubt or question which is unexplainable by language. Therefore people have only to have a "why" without explaining the reason for it.
I choose No3.
ReplyDeleteI feel the connection between college work and real life when I search information on the Internet. There are enormous information on the Internet, but we must check whether these information have good reason or not. College work give us the skill that is question for everything and finding good reasons, so that is a part of connection between college work and real life.
I chose No1.
ReplyDeleteI think it’s impossible to give good reasons for “why ” in personal matters, because we cannot explain our feelings. People usually like something just because they like it. So, I agree with the author.
I chose #2
ReplyDeleteI don't think I can behave like him. He could do it because he had strong curiosity. But even I have a feeling that I want to know something, I always give up when I find out it is hard to know or find some information. So I cannot act like him.
I chose question2:
ReplyDeleteI think I cannot behave myself like Socrate.
He had a strong will to want to know the philosphy so he could continue thinking.
I'm interested in the international cooperation or political science but what I would like to know and study is not clear.
So I cannnot act like him yet but in the future,I'd like to find out something that I can give all my possible to it.
I choose No.1
ReplyDeleteI don’t think good reasons always need in personal matters, because human thoughts are too complex. Our actions are decided by many emotions connecting. So it is difficult for us to find lucid reasons such like university works. But I believe we sometimes need to try to understand own behavior. Because understanding own behavior is linked to compose own thoughts, and it is important for our lives to do it. Therefore, I don’t completely agree with Meiland.
I chose NO2.
ReplyDeleteI can not behave like Scrates because I still do not have bravery to be killed even if I have strong wil.
However I think if his wil is succeed to his followr, his death is not meaningless.
I choose No.2
ReplyDeleteIn my Philosophy class, I’m reading on Socrates. I have learned a lot about him.
In the trial, or in the jail, he had several chances to avoid death, but he continued seeking good reasons. For him, to live means to live right, and well. He didn’t afraid death.
I want to seek good reasons, but when it is subversive, I don’t speak out my beliefs, especially when I was in danger of death.
I choose No.2.
ReplyDeleteI think I cannot behave like Socrates because I do not want to die.
But did he have to die then? I think it was so cruel to remove him for his subversiveness.
I choose No 1.
ReplyDeleteI agree with auther's opinion because we human have emotion. We sometimes do something bad without any reasons.I think that emotion makes us to do so. So I think good resons are not in "personal matter."
I chose No.1.
ReplyDeleteI agree with his idea.
Because, as he described, it is impossible to explain why you prefer fish rather than beef, or why you love your boyfriend or girlfriend. It is up to your feeling.
Therefore you need not give good reasons in personal matters.
I'm sorry for being too late!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that equally number of you on each questions. All of your opinions are so interesting to read! But I want to pick up two comments.
1st: Natsumi! You said you feel the connection between college and real life when you watch news! I didn’t think of it! So did you strongly feel it when you knew the news of poke influenza in Osaka?
2nd: Masanori! Are you reading Socrates right now? Amazing! Good timing! I wanted to hear more about it!
Also many people answered to the 1st question! But nobody disagree with Mailand! Actually, we made that question because we thought not always but sometimes, there might be reasons for even personal matters! We really wanted to talk about it… sorry…
Anyways, thank you for all of you to answer our questions!