https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w Honors Foundations 3 en-us 2016-09-01 21:24:57 UTC 2025-10-28 19:22:00 UTC hello@padlet.com dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/121222922 This quote provides a basic summary of Kant's argument- that we become truly enlightened when we stop simply agreeing to things and begin to truly think for ourselves.]]> 2016-09-01 21:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/121222922 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/122291109 This is a brief video, which summarizes Sartre's key points and arguments. I found it very helpful in understanding a particularly verbose and unclear philosopher.

]]> 2016-09-07 23:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/122291109 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/124528387 "We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-Charles Darwin
Whatever his views about society and morality being generally advantageous to mankind as a species, Darwin's "negative" or "brutal" portrayal of mankind stems solely from his belief in his "lowly origin."]]> 2016-09-17 17:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/124528387 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/125891905 This quote perfectly sums up Freud's beliefs about human creation and implementation of illusions. I, personally, do not believe that religion falls into the category of "illusions," but Freud would probably claim that I have simply never "collide[d] with a bit of reality."]]> 2016-09-23 00:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/125891905 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/127498203 I found this gif to be amusing and to draw upon an interesting point that we brought up in class. If every individual in society worked to the best of their ability with their "protestant work ethic," our society would be so improved and would function much better under capitalism. However, we do face "traditionalism" in our society with people only wanting to work as much as necessary and not working to advance]]> 2016-09-30 12:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/127498203 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/128668658 I found the concept of this picture to be very interesting. The artist has taken a game traditionally based in capitalism and tried to make it more conducive to a communist society. Instead of collecting money, the game now instructs players to "distribute" money, and a key square portrays what Marx believed to be the key problem with society: class struggle.]]> 2016-10-06 01:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/128668658 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/130889290 I found this cartoon to be funny, but also characteristic of the postmodern argument for language being meaningless. Postmodernists argue that language is meaningless because all terms and definitions can be redefined based on their context. This was just a funny illustration of that postmodern facet.]]> 2016-10-15 00:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/130889290 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/132238270 I found this quote to be particularly thought-provoking and descriptive. This quote demonstrates the postmodern belief that there are no absolutes and no definitive truth as an individual would typically define truth. Facts and truth must be viewed in the context in which they are given and through the perspective of who gives them. We can never truly agree upon any kind of truth, because we can never completely understand another's truth for we do not have his experiences.]]> 2016-10-20 22:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/132238270 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/133104648 I found this quote to be very interesting. The speaker summarizes Lyotard's dogma succinctly, just as Lyotard does in his work, yet he introduces a key flaw that the philosopher may have overlooked. Just as the statement that there is no absolute truth is an absolute truth in and of itself, so seeking to dogmatically refute any idea of a metanarrative can indeed become a metanarrative for proponents of postmodernism. ]]> 2016-10-25 17:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/133104648 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/135234159 This picture sums up what I feel our wrap up of postmodernism has revealed. While finishing up with Rorty and completing my interview, I have evaluated the changes modernism and postmodernism have wrought. With our completion of covering postmodernism, I thought that this picture was an appropriate conclusion for my board]]> 2016-11-03 20:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/135234159 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/136439785 In this passage, C.S. Lewis is arguing that instead of focusing on weeding out false doctrines that may have been prevalent among the youth of the day, educators should seek to scaffold and facilitate correct doctrines and how to learn. Instead of trying to correct false beliefs, educators should seek to give students the skills they need to develop their own beliefs correctly. As a future educator, this is exactly what I hope to do in my own classroom one day. ]]> 2016-11-09 15:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/136439785 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/138293996 I found this video summary of Lewis' work to be particularly helpful during our study of The Abolition of Man. I found the examples it contains to be particularly descriptive and effective in conveying Lewis' points about the danger of living without any objective and moral values. He claimed that living in this manner will lead only to man's eventual demise or abolition.]]> 2016-11-17 02:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/138293996 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/139940505 "We shall look quite closely at three particular sets of issues, and a range of postmodern responses to each: the postmodern ‘problem of God,’ the roles of the Christian community in the postmodern world, and the implications of the traditional claims of Christian uniqueness in the face of postmodernity’s attention to otherness” (p. 39).
I found that this quote particularly summed up Lakeland's second chapter. He chose to address a postmodern society's skepticism about an all-powerful Creator, how the Church can interact with this society, and Christianity's claim to be the only way to this God. All three points, I felt, were particularly well suited to this course and for thought-provoking questions in every Christian's life.]]> 2016-11-25 21:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/139940505 dixiedeaconbeaurmypets https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/140660272 This is a link to a well written article concerning how Christians should respond to our postmodern society. Postmodernity calls the truth of Christianity, or any objective truth into question, and we must answer this problem in our lives if we would like to be effective witnesses in our postmodern world.]]> 2016-11-29 20:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dixiedeaconbeaurmypets/2ux5spj9x69w/wish/140660272