Discussion Board Response
· Answer
someone else’s question (i.e., do not answer your own question).
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answer a question that has already been answered.
· Your
response should be (approximately) a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 350
words.
· Do
your best to respond to all aspects of the question asked.
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opinion, personal experience, etc.
· If you
refer to a particular image or idea or argument from another author, remember
to cite your source.
Objective:Please
give a response to the following post
Question 2,
Yasmin Razak
Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, was one to always be
constantly curious and questioning upon the purpose of ones existence. To him,
the idea of placing ones trust in God for the promise of salvation and eternal
life in heaven was all too great of a theory to possibly be true. He was always,
however, overwhelmed with thoughts of his own death. His struggle in faith
eventually led him to create and philosophize in his own theory of
existentialism, the belief of having a sufficient meaning and purpose to ones
life. The two main ideas which laid within the core of Kierkegaard’ s
existentialism were both that of “subjectivity of truth” and the “leap of
faith”. As Wolff suggests, “when Kierkegaard says Truth in Subjectivity,
he is denying the ancient philosophical doctrine that the truth of an idea or a
statement consists in its conformity to an independent object” (Wolff
308). By this, Kierkegaard means that the truth is a means of full resignation
toward a persons beliefs; He did not believe in treating the promise of
salvation as merely objective (like the Hegelian system would). By “leap
of faith” Kierkegaard is referring to believing in God’s promise even
though you can not prove it to be true, not even to yourself, but to believe in
it regardless. But in performing this
leap of faith, we must absolutely trust in God’s word, with no doubts.
Although
Kierkegaard was first trained to abide by Pietist Protestantism, like his
father wanted him to, Kierkegaard was only driven in to a life of
self-indulgence. He was also engaged, before later breaking it off with her
because of second thoughts. It seemed as though everything that Kierkegaard
went through during his life, all helped to accompany his theory of
existentialism, in him determining his true beloning and purpose.
What I think
that Kierkegaard tryied to establish by taking a “leap of faith” is proving to
ones self that if you are going to believe in God, then believe in Him with all
of your will, not just partially or ‘on and off’. He is attempting to reach out
to those of religious faith and have them question themselves “Do I
really, with all of my heart, believe and trust in the Lord?” because what
Kierkegaard believes is that the way you believe in something is just as
important as what you are believing in.
Question 1,
Nicolas Grill
Plato based his
philosophy on the concept of appearance and reality. He thought that in
countless cases something that looks right and good in appearance turns out to
be wrong and evil in reality. He claimed that art fits into this category. The
thesis of his philosophy is “that the metaphysical order of the universe is
mirrored in the inner psychic order of the soul” (Wolff, 2012). He believed
that art detracted from the proper inner order of the soul and that art was an
appearance and not a reality. He concludes that art clouds reality by rousing
our emotions and that in turn distorts the message of the art. Art is just an
imitation of reality that pushes us further away from the truth of nature.
Arthur C. Danto argues that imitation is no
longer a necessary criterion for something to be called art but insists that an
artistic theory is still necessary to distinguish
something as art. He calls this new theory “Reality Theory of Art”, and this
theory recognizes that modern artists successfully create new real forms that
aim “not at illusion but reality” (Wolff, 2012). He claims to see something as
art, a person must make it into art using the “is” of artistic identification.
By this he means art can not be identified without the knowledge of theory and
history and one can not identify something as a work of art until he has fully
understood the “is” of artistic identification. I really believe that art is a
matter of subjective taste. I believe a work of art expresses emotions and is
capable of stirring up emotions in the person that views it as art. I believe
that monetary value of art comes secondary to the emotional value art has to an
individual.
Q&A Question, Yasmin Razak
Is our existence just an appearance (mirage) or is it reality
(truth)? Explain your certainty.
