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Philosophy Module Week 3
A Whole Lot of Culture…and Lecturing 17 hours later and I’m DONE. I just finished Paul A. Cantor’s lecture series on Commerce and Culture. It was good but lengthy. From Shakespeare to video games to the Casablanca movie. Cantor spoke on how culture, art, economics and the market work together, and what viewpoints have produced the best results over time. A consistent theme was that art thrives in the free market. Another consistent idea presented was that art has changed over time, and it has almost always concerned people as it changes. Art created in a free, or commercial market means that artists have incentive to create art that people…
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Styles and Spaces
I love interior design, you can change so much about a space just by changing a wall color, switching up a couple pieces of decor, or adjusting your wall decor layout. Throughout the years I’ve kept an air of cute and stylish in my bedroom, but I’m always thinking about how my space can better reflect my personal style and lifestyle, Since I was about 7 actually my mom actually let me be part of choosing my bedding and wall colors. The only problem in my mind at that time was that I couldn’t get the Hello Kitty comforter I wanted because I had a double bed and not a twin.…
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Define Your Terms – Praxis Wednesday Response
Last night our module got to speak with James Walpole. Although it was really just a conversation between the four of us on the call I found a few notes to take away and appreciated the discussion overall. Something that stuck out to me was when James mentioned defining your terms. This further confirmed a debate/argument technique that I had actually heard before from some of my favorite political thinkers. It ensures you are speaking about the same things, and that you know what the other person is talking about and arguing for or against. Another favorite point from the conversation was that if you use a fallacy admit it…
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Wear Your Memories on Your Sleeve
Or on your bed. I appreciate cleanliness and limiting the number of things any one person has but I do see the value in collections that have intrinsic value to the owner. Collections are something that is curated, it is unique to that person in some ways, or has specific value to a person. Decide on an item that you can find almost anywhere and can represent each adventure well, even if it means you have something lying around you’ll have a piece of each adventure that you can touch. For me growing up, it was primarily t-shirts. I bought one everywhere my family traveled and then was pleasantly surprised…
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Youth Group By Design
Back in high school, I had been part of brainstorming a couple t-shirt designs for my youth group. Now that I’m a leader I’ve decided to try my hand at it again, and hopefully learn a little myself even if my designs aren’t used. It’s interesting where design, specifically graphic design, can find a home in the world. It’s not just about logos or slapping a phrase on a sticker. Design can be about bringing a group together with a visual that was thuroughly considered and planned. I like design. I’m trying to get better at it overall. I still tend to fall back on templates, but they get my brain…
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Art in Motion (Picture)
Throughout history, different art forms have been doubted, from the novel to the movie to the video game. Many in society saw movies s as being too different when they first came into existence to be seen as art, critics claim they were too complicated, commercialized, or counter-culture. When the movie came about many wanted to call it an art form but that was soon challenged as many people wanted to pin down a particular artist for each film. The problem was that even for the greatest motion picture works, this was and is largely impossible. Critics would judge that directors were writing what the audience wanted. Cantor points out…
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Inherently Puzzling
I’ve tried an escape room before, it was huge, and quite hard, but my group and I enjoyed it, and I was excited about trying one again. They’re a challenge but one where you know there is, for the most part, a logical end. So when my Dad decided he wanted to try one as a family for his birthday, I was excited if not slightly concerned: Would we get frustrated as a group being that I was the only one who had tried it before? Would we get stuck? We decided to try one called the Inheritance *see title*. We were solving puzzles in what felt like a dining room…
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Philosophy Module Week 2
The second week of the module was really helpful. I learned about how to construct an argument from start to finish, and how to make all my points valid, and how to avoid invalid arguments, or fallacies, that is. Arguments can be good. We learn a lot more by discussing issues and claims and backing them up with arguments then we do by just spitting facts back and forth, or avoiding arguments as a whole. Fallacies are invalid arguments. I hadn’t really realized before what explicitly constituted an invalid argument, and how I may have been misled by them in the past. Now I know more about what to look,…
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Almost Furnished
As I’ve gotten older I’ve taken on my Mom’s affinity for looking at home magazines, and looking past the old items at estate sales to see the home design present. All the designs I’ve seen have gotten me excited about furnishing my own home someday and since high school graduation, I’ve been collecting home items. My sister and I realized that we didn’t want to pay full price for furniture, and other items we would need, and we didn’t want to buy it all at once, so we started adding home essentials to birthday lists. We also started saving items for ourselves that my parents had replaced and were happy…
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Thinking in a Group – Praxis Wednesday Response
When it comes to processing philosophy last night’s group session was helpful for me. We got the chance to talk through confusing terms, and talk about our experience with the material as a whole thus far. I enjoyed talking through the ideas with the others. Exchanging ideas with others is helpful to me, especially since our group is so small. By starting with a mutual understanding that we all want to learn from the current module I think we avoid the perils of groupthink. I appreciate Praxis Wednesdays overall, even if I do struggle with concentrating during some of the large group ones. Now I’m looking forward to placement at my apprenticeship.…
