USCG STATION HOBUCKEN: JESUS AS PHILOSOPHER

IN ORDER TO KEEP ON SCHEDULE, THE FOLLOWING BLOG IS INTENDED TO KEEP USCG STATION HOBUCKEN NORTH CAROLINA ABREAST WITH CURRENT INSTRUCTION JESUS AS PHILOSOPHER.

HERE IS YOUR TASKING:

1. REVIEW THE POWER POINT #11 JESUS OF JUDEA

2. READ THE SELECTION JESUS: Born Under A Wondering Star pages 34-41 PHILOSOPHICAL MINDS

3. GO TO THE GOSPEL OF ST MATTHEW CHAPTERS 5-7...REVIEW

SUMMARY OF CONTENT

Chapter 5  Slokas 1-48  Jesus is looking for a few good men and finds it difficult to find any who are pure of heart, will, and conscience. Even his disciples fall short of this mark. He has something very special in mind. Will he ever have it in hand?

Jesus is after an interiorization of morality. He wants to make the moral life personal for all humankind. Jesus would like individuals to recognize their internal nature and learn how to better control anger, contrempt, infidility, mistrust, hatred, and vengefulness. In other words, Jesus is after a NEW idea of humankind's role in their service time on this earth.  His demands on the local population are astonishing. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect!.  Self improvement at its best...a call for humankind to go beyond the normal and envision the supernormal kingdon to come.

He asks that those who really want to be better step forward. Few can heed his call as they are not poor in spirit, are not meek, do not mourn, hunger and thirst...Jesus's message is clear and his philosophy is threefold:

1. Creation is not folly.

2. There are Great Expectations for all humankind.  

3. There is a design and destiny ahead!

You are the salt of the earth [have the power within], the light of the world [have the ability and are able to light up your environment], born to sustain the law.

An individual can kill off his friends with a shovel to the head or course and false words behind back...Reconcile with friends...quickly!

An individual can sleep with someone else who is married...bad for everyone. Stamp out the desire to lust after another...it is not easy to be yourself and not desire another's situation. 

Go the extra mile in human relationships...show some touch love.

Chapter 6 Gospel of Matthew Slokas 1-34 hit at the heart that all human action need not be noisy. Keep it simple and remember always that there is a greater than thou.  All rewards come to individuals as a result of a job well done...today. Hit it hard now...24-7-30-365-31,116 days in a row to 85...this is tough love!

Jesus is trying to sell everyone the same philosophical vision that Plato had in mind yet found hard to manufacture in hand. Jesus had in mind a heavenly Father who really knows each individual on this earth, who cares, and has great expectations for and a design and plan for salvation built within. This philosophy rests on the injunction that you have to believe and have faith and hope that these things are true and trust!  When in doubt, get over in a corner all alone and recite the Lord's Prayer...then you will hear the truth spoken to you in a voice that is inarticulate to all other ears...it is meant for you alone...and you will do your duty as God directs you toward the Promised Land. Humankind has to buy into this philosophy and generate energy in action to make these things true.

In the final Chapter 7, Slokas 1-29, Jesus lays out the plan for realizing his philosophical make-believe world: Do not judge others...perform!  Ask your family member, neighbor, community friend...and you shall receive!  Seek out the source of family and community problems and join in an assault upon them! Knock on every door until you knock down barriers to self, family,  and community improvement. In the end the individual will win! The family will win! The community will win!

After seventy years in the streets of Athens, Socrates was misunderstood and the majority who heard his philosophical message turned their backs on him and he died drinking hemlock to prove that he was not a god.

After thirty-three years in the streets and townships of Judea, Jesus was misunderstood and betrayed by some of those closest to him. One would think that this ought not to happen. However, the flesh is weak and hands are full of short-term goals and desire satisfying rewards. If there is an afterlife, then all will know!  Plato's Myth of Er does an excellent job at trying to get individuals to be aware of life's choices and make good decisions based upon a vision of great rewards to come in the afterlife.  Jesus' Sermon on the Mount lays out a simple format for developing a more perfect humankind. In the end he died disappointed and asked his Heavenly Father to forgive for they just do not know!

Remember, Philosophy is a human conversation that does not escalate into argument nor dwindle into silence. Keep the discussion alive...philosophy is for everyone!  Sois Sage

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FT PIERCE AND HOBUCKEN: PHIL 111 JESUS

• There are four religions that grew from their beginnings in Middle Eastern and Iranian geographical areas.
• In reference to their age---Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• Human expectations: to exis t[Z], to question [J] , to serve and share [C], to submit and follow through [I]
• Zoroastrianism introduced concepts of creation, dualism good/evil, angels, afterlife
• Judaism introduced concepts of human plight and struggle
• Christianity introduced concepts of perseverence and moving toward perfection
• Islam introduced concepts of sustaining glory and honoring the God.
• GOD is Creator/giver of light [Z] GOD is Lawgiver & Judge [J] GOD is Father, Redeemer, Savior [C] GOD is Compassionate, Merciful, Just...96 other attributes
• Zoroaster was teacher of righteousness [Gathas]
• Jewish prophets were generators of historical oral traditions [Testament]
• Jesus was encouraging human transformation and accountability [Gospel]
• Muhammad was the messenger of God and His final writings [Quran]
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We only have time in class to touch on the broad expanse of Aristotle's writings. I have selected to talk to you regarding his ethics.  Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical science, i.e., one mastered by doing rather than merely reasoning. Further, Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (such as metaphysics or epistemology) but is general knowledge. He wrote several treatises on ethics, including most notably, Nichomachean Ethics, in which he outlines what is commonly called virtue ethics.

Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function of a thing. An eye is only a good eye in so much as it can see, because the proper function of an eye is sight. Aristotle reasoned that man must have a function uncommon to anything else, and that this function must be an activity of the soul. Aristotle identified the best activity of the soul as eudaimonia: a happiness or joy that pervades the good life. Aristotle taught that to achieve the good life, one must live a balanced life and avoid excess. This balance, he taught, varies among different persons and situations, and exists as a golden mean between two vices - one an excess and one a deficiency.

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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

ESSAY: MYTH OF ER

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FT PIERCE/HOBUCKEN HINDU CONCEPT OF SOUL

BHAGAVAD-GITA CHAPTER II OF 18...The Book of Doctrines

Conversation between Lord Krishna and Humankind's Prince Arjuna

Ever was not, nor ever will not be, For ever and for ever afterwards. All, that doth live, lives always! To man's frame As there come infancy and youth and age, So come there raisings-up and layings-down Of other and of other life-abodes, Which the wise know, and fear not. This that irks Thy sebe never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!nse-life, thrilling to the elements Bringing thee heat and cold, sorrows and joys, 'Tis brief and mutable! Bear with it, Prince! As the wise bear. The soul which is not moved, The soul that with a strong and constant calm Takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently, Lives in the life undying! That which is Can never cease to be; that which is not Will not exist. To see this truth of both Is theirs who part essence from accident, Substance from shadow. Indestructible, Learn thou! the Life is, spreading life through all; It cannot anywhere, by any means, Be anywise diminished, stayed, or changed. 

I say to thee weapons reach not the Life, Flame burns it not, waters cannot o'erwhelm, Nor dry winds wither it. Impenetrable, Unentered, unassailed, unharmed, untouched, Immortal, all-arriving, stable, sure, Invisible, ineffable, by word And thought uncompassed, ever all itself, Thus is the Soul declared! How wilt thou, then, Knowing it so, - grieve when thou shouldst not grieve? How, if thou hearest that the man new-dead Is, like the man new-born, still living man One same, existent Spirit - wilt thou weep? The end of birth is death; the end of death Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou, Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls Which could not otherwise befall? The birth Of living things comes unperceived; the death Comes unperceived; between them, beings perceive: What is there sorrowful herein dear Prince? Wonderful, wistful, to contemplate! Difficult, doubtful, to speak upon! Strange and great for tongue to relate, Mystical hearing for every one! Nor wotteth man this, what a marvel it is, When seeing, and saying, and hearing are done!

FT PIERCE/HOBUCKEN PLATO'S MYTH OF ER

The Myth of Er is an eschatological legend that concludes Plato's dialogue known as "The Republic"(10.614-10.621). The story begins as a man named Er dies in battle. When the bodies are collected, ten days after his death, Er remains undecomposed. Two days later he revives when on his funeral-pyre and tells of his journey in the afterlife, including an account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of theastral plane. The tale introduces the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death.

Characterizing something as a "Myth of Er" is a metaphorical way of saying that it was seminal in beginning a new field of thought or action to which subsequent developments can be traced.

Er's tale

With many other souls as his companions Er had come across an awesome place with four openings, two into and out of the sky and two into and out of the earth. Judges sat between these openings and ordered the souls which path to follow: the good were guided into the path in the sky, the immoral were directed below. But when Er approached the judges he was told to remain, listening and observing in order to report his experience to humankind.

Meanwhile from the other opening in the sky, clean souls floated down, recounting beautiful sights and wondrous feelings. Others, returning from the earth, appeared dirty, haggard and tired, crying in despair when recounting their awful experience, for each had been rewarded tenfold for their deeds on earth. There were some, however, that could not be released from the underground. Murderers, tyrants and other non-political criminals were doomed to remain by the exit of the underground, unable to escape.

After seven days in the meadow the souls and Er were required to travel further. After four days they reached a place where they could see a rainbow shaft of light brighter than any they had seen before. After another day's travel they reached it. This was the spindle of Necessity. Several women, including Lady Necessity, her daughters and the Sirens were present. The souls were then organized into rows and were each given a lotterytoken apart from Er.

Then of their lottery tokens, they were required to come forward in order and choose their next life. Er recalled the first to choose a new soul, a man who had not known the terrors of the underground, but had been rewarded in the sky, hastily choose a powerful dictatorship. Upon further inspection he realized that, among other atrocities, he was destined to eat his own children. Er observed that this was often the case of those who had been through the path in the sky, whereas those who had been punished often chose a better life. Many preferred a life different from their previous experience. Animals chose human lives while humans often chose the apparently easier lives of animals.

After this each soul was assigned a deity to help them through their life. They passed under the throne of Lady Necessity, then traveled to the Plain of Oblivion, where the River of Forgetfulness (River Lethe) flowed. Each soul was required to drink some of the water, in varying quantities, apart from Er. As they drank, each soul forgot everything. As they lay down at night to sleep each soul was lifted up into the night in various directions for rebirth, completing their journey. Er remembered nothing of the journey back to his body. He opened his eyes to find himself lying on the funeral pyre, early in the morning, and able to recall his journey through the afterlife.

The moral

In the dialogue Socrates introduces the story by explaining to his questioner, Glaucon, that the soul must be immortal. The soul cannot be damaged or destroyed by its defect, immorality, unlike food, which will perish should it become mouldy. Neither can the soul be destroyed by any outer defect, illness for instance. In order to explain his theory that morally good people are rewarded after death, and that the opposite is true of immoral people, Socrates tells Glaucon the "Myth of Er".

Rewards and punishments result directly from the individual's conduct, rather than being administered by an external deity. This section of the Republic is one of the first extant texts to deal with responsibility and choice, central questions of Western ethics.

NOTE: HOBUCKEN & FT PIERCE PHIL/ENG CLASS

FT PIERCE PRESENTED ORAL REPORTS ON PLATO TODAY [WED OCT 8]. HOBUCKEN DID NOT HAVE ANY ORAL REPORTS AS THEY WERE AWAY FROM STATION AT THE GUN RANGE. 

SINCE MONDAY IS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATING COLUMBUS DAY, THE NEXT CLASS WILL BE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15. WE WILL BE DISCUSSING PLATO'S MYTH OF ER...THERE WILL BE INFORMATION ON THE BLOG RELATING TO THIS ASSIGNMENT.

ESSAYS ON PLATO ARE DUE @ PORT ORCHARD WA BY SUNDAY EVENING OCT 12.

WHEN STUDENTS ARE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND CLASS THEY MUST KEEP ABREAST OF WORK VIA THEIR POWER POINT INSTRUCTIONAL DISCS, READINGS, AND BLOG NOTICES.

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