Here is a list of questions to inspire thought. If you have your own blog, and you want to tackle one of these questions – post a link to your answers, I’d like to read what you have. You choose the meaning of the words I use (ex. ‘existence’, ‘trust’, ‘truth’); take and answer the questions in however way you want.
- Does freedom exist, or are we chasing an uncatchable ideal?
- Is it possible to prove/disprove the existence of God?/Is it possible to disprove the existence of anything?
- Why does society often accept education from teachers without question? From where do we get this ‘blind faith’ in teachers?
- Is it possible to ‘change your future’?
- If so many spiritual traditions speak against bloodshed and violence, why do so many wars erupt over religion? What does this say about human nature and religion?
- Does globalization prevent close relationships, or help them?
- Why do people say they want to marry someone who is ‘similar to themselves’? Why are some people more likely to love somebody similar to themselves, than somebody who is the opposite? Does this say anything about our self-centered human nature?
- Why do we feel better when somebody is as unhappy as we are? Does ‘It feels better knowing someone else feels the same’ have a lot to do with it, or is it something else completely (ex. jealousy?)?
- Just like Glaucon’s Ring of Gyges, many of us would commit crimes if nobody could see us. Likewise, we are more likely to do something right if someone is watching. Do people choose to do good because of judgment, or does it really have to do with ‘ethical values’?
- If goodness, peace, justice, and love so highly regarded as values, why is it so hard for society to express them? If we ‘let ourselves go’, how many of us would be ‘naturally’ loving? Is Hobbes correct when he says we our human nature is ‘brutish’?
