Hi taking a break.
FANTASTIC!! : D
You got a 4/4!!
So you are now reading Calvin and Hobbes? They are one of my favorites. Oh, wait…you are reading Hobbes, the older philosopher. lol
If I may comment, you are really synthesizing the material well.
Just by the way you digest your reading and come your own realization that it is like the, “What’s mine is mine and yours is yours…etc”, shows you to have a natural ability to do this.
I just want to say that you have grown tremendously. Taking your natural intelligence and now applying a tenacity to tackle any academic challenge that comes your way, I believe, is a remarkable growth step that will benefit you in all areas of life.
Continued success, and thank you for your kinds words. I am happy knowing you are doing so well in your studies.
By the way, when you get to Kant’s, Categorical Imperative, I think you will find it to be a pretty cool model regarding determining issues of morality.
I used to use it when talking/arguing with atheists who would deny the validity of what the Torah says regarding morality. Pretty much, Kant’s model comes to the same results as what we believe.
Very basically, Kant has a formula determining, by creating a valid “maxim”, that if everyone in society did “such and such”, if that would be good for society, then it is moral. The opposite would make something immoral.
It can come in handy in debates for those who reject Torah, yet surprisingly blows the minds of social liberals by many times coming to the same conclusion from a secular angle.
One very quick example would be toeiva marriage. If, chas veshalom, everyone in the society did that, then that community would probably be the last to be married. The problem being children. None of the pairings could produce their own. So, without getting into the scientific/social mess of how each marriage would obtain children, radically reshaping the idea of family in all cases, one can determine that for society, toeiva marriage would not be moral. And this proof would be from a secular view.
There is more to it…as you will see.
Again, continued success!!
You are doing an awesome job!!!
Actually, you seem to have a knack for philosophy and you are very good at it!!!