After the reflection last week there was a request for the notes.  I put some together quickly and here they are:

Reflection 1 Feb 2009

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1.1-11

John 11.1-16

Images:

Plato:

  • Image of ideal forms
  • Metaphor of the cave/shadows

Socrates:

  • ‘Unexamined life is not worth living’
  • Executed by drinking hemlock for teaching youth means of questioning thoroughly.  Dangerous.

Descartes: “Cogito ergo sum”:

  • I think, therefore I am
  • Mind/body dualism

Hegel:

  • Overarching/all encompassing system
  • Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
  • W/out Hegel, no Marx

Kierkegaard:

  • NO to Hegel; the individual before God
  • Leap of faith: Abraham

Derrida:… click here to read more