Philosophy+2010

 Welcome to the page where everyone who has an interest in philosophical discussions, can interact with each other.

Here are some thought provoking images...we discussed these when we were talking about "reality" last term....What do you think?

We looked at "ESCHER" (see above).Which way up does it go? Why?

﻿ ﻿ ﻿Maraea: ﻿I think that up is diagonally left because if you look in that direction you can see all the stairs cases lead up to the that direction.

= Zia: I think it could be any way the mind sees it. =



....What makes something real? 

Maraea: ﻿ ﻿ ﻿It depends what type of real you're talking about for e.g. one type of real is things that have chi or enegy in them and yet another type of real is feelings becauase there're mentally stored in your brain. So not all real things have to be phisicaly there.

Is this real?

Maraea: Again it depends on what type of real because it could just be deflated, and another real is it actually there?



 What about this?



Maraea: ﻿I think this is the reflection of the water or two photo shots in the pool.

zia:"it's sort of like a trick photo."

At the moment we are discussing "Power".

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">Q. For someone to be powerful, must others be weak?

Amber: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">" Some people are more powerful than others" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">Joe: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">" No, other people can be powerful but in a different way. They can be physically powerful and others can be powerful in other ways". <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">Fintan: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;"> "Some people can be powerful in ways that other people see them" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">Maraea: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;"> "Yes, not everyone can be powerful. If you are mentally powerful it means you can push through with your mind when it all gets tough. There has to be a balance."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;">Jake: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; overflow: hidden;"> "You need to have power for the triathalon to push yourself". <span style="color: #1af4f4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">zia: "yer you need some power but you don't need to much. you could have strength, but is power strength?"

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Welcome Zia-to our discussion...can anyone answer/comment on Zia's question?

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Q. Do people with power, have to be strong?

Maraea: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%; overflow: hidden;">No.Not all people with power are strong and not all people with strongness are powerful.Also there are different types of strongness. Their are different types of power as well. So I'm just going to use two examples. If strongness was being strong inside yourself mentally and if power was having power over a country that wouldn't mean that the person would have the mental type of strongness as well as the power. But again it depends on what type of power or strongness we're talking about.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: x-large;">Q. If someone has power over you-do you still have power? <span style="color: #f50df8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">zia <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;"> : yes because you can't lose your power.