PHILSOPHY OF MIND:   . This is the view that says that humans have physical bodies and brains, but our mental states are non-physical and immaterial.  There is no “I” or “Self” (it is an illusion), but there are physical brain properties and non-physical mental properties (thoughts, beliefs, sensations, desires, willings) that are correlated with brain states. 

Saint Augustine’s Confessions Book II: Ch. 1 When Augustine says he found pleasure in “the many” instead of “the One”, what is he talking about? 

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES & PHILOSOPHY OF MIND:   Substance Dualism vs. Physicalism . NDEs and Conceiving.   When we are entertaining whether or not someone actually floated above the operating table through the floors of a hospital and over the roof of the hospital, what do we think is doing such a thing?  Is it a physical brain that is stuck to the ceiling of the ER and a brain that oozes through cracks in the floors and through a hole in the roof?  NO.  We are conceiving of a thinking and perceiving center of consciousness.  That is what the mind is – a unified self that acts, intends, senses, has emotions, thinks, remembers, and perceives.  . This is J.P. Moreland’s argument for physicalism, or the view that human beings nave no non-physical minds/souls and are only physical entities made of matter. 

Saint Augustine’s Confessions Book IV In Book 4, Chapter 4, Augustine recounts a story where he just wanted to be evil and steal for the sake of stealing itself with his friends.  What did Augustine and his friends steal from the neighbor?

This goal of the Socratic elenchus is to convince the interlocutor that his argument is fallacious (or correct). 

Euthyphro was filing a civil/religious suit against his father for ________________________. 

The following are passages illustrating _____________________:   ·                 “Only you prophets can tell” (3e).  ·                 “Good heavens, Euthyphro!  Surely the crowd is ignorant of the way things ought to go.  I fancy it is not correct for any ordinary person to do that [prosecute his own father] but only for a man already far advanced in point of wisdom” (4b).  ·                 “Admirable Euthyphro, the best thing I can do is to become your pupil” (5a). 

If you saw, Thirteen Hours, you saw the 11 September 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.   The Obama Administration blamed the organized, jihadist Islamists attacks on a riot in response to a video by an Egyptian Coptic Christian whose film used quotes from the Qur’an and the Hadith with the purpose to show his Muslim friends that Muhammad is a violent, sex-crazed person that was not worthy to follow compared to Jesus (Isa).  The FBI raided his home and imprisoned him instead of going after the terrorists who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans in Libya.  What might John Stuart Mill say about this?  

Dallas Willard argues that a good test to see if we are truly concerned about discovering truth is to ask, “Do I want to know if p is true?” 

The late philosopher, Dallas Willard, argued how many in power silence minority views from surfacing is by making people disgusted by a view (without understanding it).  This is an effective way to eliminate the possibility of knowledge through contempt.  If one has contempt for a conclusion of a certain position, s/he will not investigate it.  Contempt, prior to investigation, is a sure way to stop people from discovering the truth about a matter.