AP01 - Human Nature As a Starting Point

Join the SD Philosophers' Roundtable (www.meetup.com/The-San-Diego-Philosophers-Roundtable/) for a beginners' series of seminars on American philosophy, a discourse from the ground up.

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To all who RSVP, I will post the link to the online meeting about roughly, maybe 10 minutes before the event.

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01. Human Nature As a Starting Point
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02. Permanence and Change in the World
03. Perception and Reality (Naïve, Direct, Indirect)
04. Promiscuous Believers and Promiscuous Doubters
05. Consciousness As a Biological Advantage
06. Sarastro and Queen of Night (Or Reason and Passion)
07. Desire, Appetite, Pleasure (High and Low)
08. Action and Reaction
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1. Human Nature As a Starting Point:

2. What is the nature of being human?

3. How does any answer to this question affect one's life?

4. How have the moral systems of the world answered this question?

5. What is the mode of living befitting human nature?

6. Is there a philosophy that can justify such a mode?

[Pics:
Screen grab in the first minute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHRh6nDvc0
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