Welcome, all KI students.
This is a blog for you to verify/clarify concepts and positions we covered in class, or deepen a discussion you were passionate about but lack the time (or interested parties) to develop, or to generate new areas of interest.
What's in it for you:
1. Engage deeper into the topics, clarify and strengthen your opinions!
2. Find like-minded 'thinkers' out there (esp from the other classes)
3. Gain membership in a cool online philospher-cafe where only brains matters
4. Meet the requirements for elearning
What's in it for us:
Teachers are very much behaviourists. A blog is a platform to display your ideas, emotions, and inner mental experience. Therefore, a blog for elearning ...(you go figure out the Ps and C in syllogistic forms). But of course, beneath this rationalist enterprise, we are foundationalists too. As firm believers of the elenchus, this is perhaps the best way to keep your minds squeezed while you await hungrily for the next dose of mental pain and sweet anguish in class and lectures. And for some, placing your mental activities in the open proves or gives meaning to your existence and ease your discomfort with solipsism. So, this is a justified method that serves our pedagogical beliefs. You will make it true.
So
What do we do? What do we do?
(ain't all the best philosophy essays those that ask more questions than they provide answers?)
Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, 'If God didn't exist, everything would be possible."But we also know better that "as with everything in life, there are rules."
Hence, the rules:
1. Tutors will start the ball rolling (of course, you can start off too) with any topics. Students will respond/comment on them (intelligently and intelligibly).
2. Respect for opinions. Cat fights only take place in cages.
3. You can pose any interesting articles/readings/ideas to generate your own discussion. But make sure you should show why it is KI-related. Remember: any presentation of information is considered construction itself.
4. You need to save the topic you are responding to and 3 of your most 'impressive' entries as a microsoft word document. They are to be submitted to your tutors for evaluation by the end of every term.
Questions?
I will get the ball rolling tomorrow. And talking about rolling balls (or boulders in my case), do check out The Myth of Sisyhus by Albert Camus, one of the existential novelists.
