The human perspective

[JamesDean]

I am a college student, and it is the start of the new semester. Once again the school messed up on my registration. Several classes were took of my registration without my knowledge. I don't have the money to buy several $100+ books I'm not going to use. I also don't have and extra $10,000 for an extra year because I didn't get into the classes I needed because of their mistakes. The next year is going to be real tough because of them.

Anyway, I went to the class catalogue, writing down all the classes I'd be interested in (already was in all of them that I needed that I could be in). I needed to be taking at least 12 credit hours or I lose my financial aid and thus would have to drop out of college. I came up with a list of about 25. Being the day before classes start, I knew most would be full. It would be unlikely that all would be completely full. Guess what happened.

Then the search went to a class that I thought I'd get a decent grade in. Finally found one class the fit the profile, called the human perspective, a philosophy class. As it turns out, I think I'll be quite interested in it.

There are two main ways of looking at human beings in philosophy, the humanistic view and the naturalistic view. In the humanistic view there is an unphysical soul that has consciousness and free will. The problem with this view is there is a lot it doesn't explain. In the naturalistic view humans and their behaviors and actions are nothing but the net result of chemical reactions in their brains. The problem with this one is it doesn't explain how a hunk of brain matter is able to have comprehension, like when you see a flower, how is a piece a matter able to comprehend and appreciate that it is a flower. There are differents theories on each, and also views that combine both

Because of my ability to sense and talk to ghosts, I know that there is an unphysical soul. But how do say that without my teacher thinking I'm nuts, lol. We have started anything yet, but I already have some interesting questions. For example, I have a friend that has a chemical imbalance in her brain that causes her violent from time to time. That led to me wondering how much of ones behavior is their soul, and how much is influenced by the physical body. I'm sure I'll have a lot of other interesting questions as the class goes on.

[Sercee]

I think that will be extremely interesting. Keep us informed

[Sobek]

yes, please do, sounds quite excellent

[Daughter of Dreams]

That definately is interesting! One of my best guy friends *and boy do we have a complicated history* is a humanist....and we've gotten into some pretty intense conversations where we both just call it a draw cos neither of us wants to budge.

Good luck and keep us informed....please? ^_^

[Theila]

Philosophy is GREAT! I love it.

My husband gets upset everytime I try to Philosophize with him though