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Q 1 / 2: Plato, Descartes, Watzlawick, and the matrix

Philosophical main question of "Matrix" (1999)

The philosophical reference points of the movie with Keanu Reeves in the lead role are the four main questions Kant, here you can Linking to epistemology and the question of reality and formulate human knowledge: "How do I know I am not a brain in a tank?" It is

find analogies to the cave of Plato, the Matrix is similar to the picture of that cave. It also involves the distinction between the Descartes res extensa (body) and res cogitans (spirit): The mind-body problem

similarities and differences




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How Is Masterbation Healthy

Q 3 / 4: Bellum iustum - Culture and aggression of the people!

following issues were addressed in recent meetings:

• 01/10/2011: Bellum iustum: Afghanistan deployment of the Bundeswehr (ARD-Reportage): from political and religious justifications for use in the Hindu Kush
• 01/13/2011: Georg WF Hegel: "War as the father of all things" (reference to Heraclitus)
• 01/17/2011: comparison of justification a war, according to Hegel with the justifications for Afghanistan (Jeff: "Hegel is a Taliban")
• 18/01/2011: aggression theories

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• 24/01/2011: Sigmund Freud : How do people deal with aggression? A discussion about the human Schuldbewustein and permanent suppression of human instincts

• The link for the Freud-graph to the superego, ego and [ click ]

• The guilt of man (voltage between the strict super-ego and the subject to him I) as a regulatory body for human aggression.

• guilt is equated with a need for punishment of the superego on the ego. The culture (superego) weakens so the aggressiveness of the people in that it weakens it or suppressed.

emergence of the categories of good and evil

• What is a sense of guilt: You feel guilty if you did something or thought of what once recognizes as "evil."
• The evil is not out of the inside of a man even if you might have internalized it.
• The idea of the morally reprehensible foreign influence, for example, by society, education, media ....
• Why choose against the "pleasure principle" and against evil / Why is subjected to the foreign influence? → Who is a function and helpless feeling, is fear of loss of love have ( see also need structures , old blog entry by Johanna Denfeld and Tina Meyer)

parody of Sigmund Freud by Mathias Richling


Sigmund Freud: The malaise in the culture:

Nothing But Water Glorietta For Men

Q 1 / 2: Whorf, Magee, Black and Watzlawick: Language and Reality

The following topics were discussed in recent meetings:

• 08./20.12.10 - Benjamin Lee Whorf: Grammar influenced our thinking
• 01.10.2011 - Language - The window to reality? Max Black: There is no simple causal relationship between grammar and thought.
• 01/12/2011 - Bryan Magee: Language does not capture all reality (but also the direct experience)
• 17/01/2011 - Modern theories of truth: Adäquations-/Korrespondenztheorie, coherence and consensus theory and its argumentative weaknesses (methodology: impromptu speech)
• 24/01/2011 - Paul Watzlawick: How Real Is Real? Constructivism in philosophy

• 01/26/2011 - Plato, Descartes, Watzlawick, and the matrix

The topics revolve around the issues:

• language and truth

• language and Think
• language and reality