Utilitarian or Cantian perspective?

Which one do you like more??

What Do You Think About Morality?

Lately, we have been talking about morality. I just wanted to get any opinions about what you may think that it is. I believe that what is moral to one person may not be moral to another and judgements really should not be made. I would have to get to know a person before I even think about judging an action that they make. Like most everybody, I believe that there is a right and wrong, and our conscience tells us that. Whether we are taught different beliefs or not, the basis for most everybody is that you can either choose good or bad. Sometimes we do discriminate or judge before we actually know a person, but I believe that we have to get to know a person before we judge whether they make moral actions or not. What do you think?

Opinions on the Milgram Experiment!!

I thought that the Milgram experiment was very useful. It showed that the majority of people can do bad things under an authoritative leader. Even with most decisions that people do, they are very obedient to their leaders. Most people just follow orders when they work and they really never have any authority. The experiment showed that even though people say that they would never do a wrong, they really do not realize the power that an authoritative person can have on their choices.

What Do You Think About Determinism??

I believe that determinism is the most extreme view that we have talked about. It is easy to oppose it, but there really is not a way of knowing if determinism is true or false. Even some religions say that God is all knowing, meaning that he knows everything that has happened and what is to happen. This could mean that determinism is actually true. However, I would still say that we all have free will and we determine our futures to some extent. All I really know is that we do have a choice when making a decision. Whether a God knows our future or not should not make us so skeptical that we would keep in mind that our future has already been determined.

What is a Mind?

There are so many different views of what makes up a mind. At first most everybody was saying that only humans and animals can have minds. Now I'm starting to hear that all natural things have minds, including plants. However, Most everybody will still not consider a computer to have a mind. What it really comes down to is how we define a mind. What does something need to have in order to have a mind??

Descartes Cognitive Realist

After looking at Descartes belief of the world, I noticed that I don't agree with his order; 

Minds->God->World. I still wonder how did the minds come about if nothing just happens to be as simple as this belief of the world. The way most of us see the world; 

Minds<-Ideas<-World<-God, still may be wrong but it makes more since to me. Why does Descartes make such assumption about the order that things came to be?? To me and probably to the majority in this class, I believe that there was some kind of divine intervention (God) that definitely had to be the start to everything.

The General Public and the Media

After doing our group presentations last week, I noticed that most everybody in the class did not necessarily agree with the majority of what the news networks showed. It came up to my mind, why does the general public in the United States not stand up to what these news networks show on the news the majority of the time, if not always? I believe that if anything is to change, it is up to the majority and if we keep being "ignorant," then these news networks are going to keep feeding us what really is not actually important.