PHI 105 Week 8 DQ 1 Recent
PHI 105 Week 8 DQ 1 Recent
Is it better to doubt everything that is less than certain, or to believe in possible falsehoods? Why?
Thought Experiment – What is race?
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| Read the following story Malcolm X told in his famous “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech:
A friend of mine who is very dark put a turban on his head and went into a restaurant in Atlanta before they called themselves desegregated. He went into a white restaurant, he sat down, they served him, and he said, “What would happen if a Negro came in here? And there he’s sitting, black as night, but because he had his head wrapped up the waitress looked back at him and says, “Why, there wouldn’t no nigger dare come in here.” Malcolm X. (April 3, 1964). The balllot or the bullet. Social Justice Speeches. Retrieved from http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html. What is race? Is it biological? Is it what philosophers like to call “plastic,” meaning a social construction only? Somewhere in between? What would have to happen in our world for there to be no racism? ORDER NOW FOR ORIGINAL, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSFrom Matt Lawrence, Philosophy on Tap: Pint-Sized Puzzles for the Pub Philosopher (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 42. Adapted with permission. Do you think it is possible for different groups to have truly empathetic understanding of each other? Why or why not? Submit your final journal, compiling your entries from Weeks One through Nine.
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