Thursday Questions

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?


3. What did you have for breakfast?


4. How many languages do you speak?


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

Yes.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

There's a tear in my beer.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

bagel. bacon. (and i wonder why i am getting fat :p)


4. How many languages do you speak?

Three


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Cinnamon Raisin

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

I'm not smart enough to figure out what the hell Kant is talking about

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

drivin 'n' cryin's Scarred But Smarter

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Coffee, cigarettes, cheese danish

4. How many languages do you speak?

Uno

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Everything bagels fresh out of the oven

Wednesday about keeled me...

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

What time is it? Mmmmmm coffee...

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

Rehab - Amy Whitehouse

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Mmmmmm coffee, and meds...

4. How many languages do you speak?

Does pig latin and sarcasm count?

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Never met a bagel I didn't like

1. i wouldn't say i "believe," but i can give assent to portions of it if certain requirements are met.

2. ipod?

3. chicken breast patty in enchilada sauce

4. can speak english, used to know german, but lost it.

5. plain or garlic. untoasted.

"1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:
'Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law'"
WHAT should become universal law. I'm not sure that quote even makes sense grammatically. I'd like to see Kant diagram that sentence.

"2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?"
Not sure. The most recent audiobook was The God Delusion.

"3. What did you have for breakfast?"
Organic cornflakes. Very crunchy.

"4. How many languages do you speak?"
Let's see now--including English--ummm, hmmmm--one. (Public education.)

"5. Do you like bagels? What kind?"
Any kind without raisins.

...Only do things that you would have become universal law; don't do anything that isn't worthy of becoming the standard.

That's really the best I can do. I'd like to see Kant diagram the sentence as well.

If I follow that and no one else does, I'll get my ass kicked.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative: I don't know!
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod? I have no iPod but I did listen to an old Rick Astley song on youtube last night.


3. What did you have for breakfast? Walnuts and raisins


4. How many languages do you speak? 2 (neither one very well :rofl: )


5. Do you like bagels? What kind? I don't care for bagels too much but I'd pick blueberry.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

Huh?

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

Don't have one of those.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Nothing

4. How many languages do you speak?

One

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Yes, most kinds but poppy-seed the best

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
I froze up here, literally. I think I pulled a muscle in my head -stretch-


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
No Ipod here


3. What did you have for breakfast?
bagel


4. How many languages do you speak?
one, barely


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
funny you should ask :)
plain bagel with lots of cream cheese with chives

:hi:

1.) Can you translate that?
2.) I don't have an ipod.
3.) I didn't have breakfast this morning.
4.) One.
5.) Yes. Sesame bagels!!

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

Immanual Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed


John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene' Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

I have no Ipod.


3. What did you have for breakfast?

half a bagel


4. How many languages do you speak?

just one


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

love 'em, my favorite right now is onion but that can change

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

I am hearing it for the first time and can barely even understand it, but the answer is no. I believe more along the lines of "Act as if today were your last day on Earth and deny yourself nothing, universal law be damned."

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

I don't own an Ipod. The last song I heard on my CD player was by an obscure 1980's rock band from Cleveland called Shok Paris.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Protein shake. Vanilla. It sucked. A lot.

4. How many languages do you speak?

Two fluently, one conversationally. I'm studying another as we speak, but I really suck at it.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Yes, but only if toasted. Sesame and onion are my favorites.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
only if there's enough butter. Otherwise, yuck.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
n/a


3. What did you have for breakfast?
cranberry scone. It wasn't very good, it was too bread-ish and not crumbly biscuit-ish enough. Also, more cranberries would have been awesome

4. How many languages do you speak?
fluently? one

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
yes. Onion for sammiches and cinnamon raisin with cream cheese

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

No, but I do believe in the categorical imperative of Buckaroo Banzai: "No matter where you go, there you are"

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

No IPOD; last CD I heard was Amarok by Mike Oldfield

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Mixed a pack of maple/brown sugar and apple cinnamon oatmeal and tea.

4. How many languages do you speak?

Was pretty good in Spanish, but I've forgotten a lot of it. Learning a bit of French now.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Everything or sesame bagels with cream cheese

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

For the most part.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

"Built For Comfort" by Howlin' Wolf.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

A few cigarettes.

4. How many languages do you speak?

1 1/2 -- English y un poquito de espanol.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Yes/All of them.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
Yes.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
'1 2 3 4' by Feist

3. What did you have for breakfast?
We were out late so we didn't have time this morning.

4. How many languages do you speak?
just English (and cat-speak, that doesn't count)

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
I looovve every kind of bagels, onions.. raisins.. poppy seeds.. cream cheesey... mmmm bagel sandwiches.. But I don't eat them anymore because my butt's big enough already :cry:

1. Yes

2. I don't have an iPod

3. Waffles and ham

4. Seventeen. Only two of them (English and German) are usable on Earth and/or outside my mind, though, and one of them (Hebrew) is for translation only, not conversation.

5. Yes - all of them, except those abominable "flavored" ones, like "cinnamon bun bagels" and so on. I love salt bagels, poppy seed, sesame seed, and pumpernickel bagels. One of my biggest disappointments in not being in NYC any more is not having access to good, cheap bagels.

Since you said yes to number 1, can you explain it to me?

Thanks!

I think what he's saying that each of our actions should be of such good ethical and moral quality that we would be willing to consider them as universal rules; as actions that we would suggest all people take. Which is to say, if you aren't doing something that you don't think ALL people should be doing, then maybe it's not a good thing to be doing.

Shrub would be a good candidate for explaining this maxim to. :7

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

No diggety! Don't make promises you can't keep

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

No I-pod, but I do carry my walkman and mixed tapes. I made a summer disco tape recently and that's what's been playing. Loleatta Holloway's "Catch Me on the Rebound"

3. What did you have for breakfast?
egg whites and cheese on a croissant and a small coffee to go

4. How many languages do you speak?
Two. Ingles y castellano

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
I like everything bagels

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

I don't like that magazine, Maxim. I'd rather just look at some actual porn, or read something with some substance. That magazine sucks.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

Wire, "Single KO"

3. What did you have for breakfast?

coffee, cigarette

4. How many languages do you speak?

none

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

yes, I like many kinds. the last one I ate was a multigrain.

...to see if any of my hot young actress friends were on their top 100 list. They weren't. I got weird looks reading it on the train.

1. yes, kinda like a "do unto others" thing.

2. American Religious History: The European Context, by Professor Patrick Allitt.

3. Fried egg sandwiches (2) and coffee

4. 2

5. Yes...plain, with creamcheese

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

if i am understanding this correctly, i say yes

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod? no ipod


3. What did you have for breakfast? cup of coffee


4. How many languages do you speak? one


5. Do you like bagels? What kind? yes, love em. all of em

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

Believe it? I don't even understand it! :eyes:

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod? I don't have an Ipod.

3. What did you have for breakfast? Cereal with strawberries.

4. How many languages do you speak? Just English, but I studied French years ago.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind? Yes. Whole grain.

Happy Flag Day, everyone! :patriot:

1. Kant's imperative: No. It's good in theory but absolutely doesn't work in real life. It ignores the importance of differences of scale.

2. Last song: Joe Nichols, "Another Side Of You."

3. Breakfast: A Banana, and assorted stuff from the deli Salad Bar.

4. Languages: I only speak one, English. I've failed to learn more than isolated phrases in Spanish, Hebrew, and American Sign Language.

5. Bagels: Love them, as long as they are good, large, NY bagels. I almost always get either Cinnamon Raisin or Sesame, depending on what I'm going to put on it.

I'd love to hear those with a yes or no answer to #1 tell me what it means. I don't remember anything from the year I read Kant. ;-) And I'm not sure I understand the sentence.

Some things are good sometimes, but only things that are always good are truly moral.

A moral rule is only valid if it still stands when raised to a universal rule. i.e., "Always tell the truth" is a valid moral rule because it would still be good if everyone always told the truth. "Give me a dollar" is not a valid moral rule, because in some cases it would be good for people to give me a dollar but in other cases it would not be.

The problem with this, is that there is no action that is always good all the time. Life gets complicated. And some things are very good on a small scale but not so good on a large scale. They does not demean those good things.

:)

I was close, but I didn't quite get it. And now I think I can remember discussing this in class almost 20 years ago. Still pretty hazy though...kind of foggy, or shall we say, smokey?

:hippie:

Perhaps.

:)

. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

If this means what I think it means, the answer is no. My actions are not necessarily the correct ones.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" sung by Jerry Garcia.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Tuna on a wheat roll, Nectarine, 2 bottles of water.

4. How many languages do you speak?

English, a few Italian words only, and my own special language where I run around the house naked after a shower and yell "Bueno"! while drying myself.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Beagles are nice dogs, but I like Collies better.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

No idea.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

I do not own an iPod.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

Bran cereal with skim milk, plus a strawberry Pop Tart.

4. How many languages do you speak?

I'm fluent in English. I have studied French.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Yes, most any kind.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

I'm not sure I truly understand it, but it sounds way to definite for me.


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

Queen Bee, Thurston Moore, Psychic Hearts


3. What did you have for breakfast?

A granola bar and a bottle of water


4. How many languages do you speak?

I almost speak one.


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Everything Bagel with Veggie Cream Cheese

1. Sometimes I Kan, and sometimes I Kant.

2. I don't have an iPod.

3. Raisin bran with skim milk, and a glass of high pulp orange juice. Then the requisite pot of ZombyCoffee, of course.

4. Only one fluently. I was near-fluent in Spanish once, but am out of practice. I have some decent familiarity with German.

5. Yes. All kinds, from blueberry to jalapeno. I don't eat them often, but I enjoy them.

1. No.

2. Luka by Suzanne Vega

3. Focaccia bread

4. 5

5. Yes. Plain.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

No. I prefer to relax.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?

"Nietzsche" by the Dandy Warhols, I think.

3. What did you have for breakfast?

A few cups of coffee. Usually I do better.

4. How many languages do you speak?

None fluently.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?

Onion bagels, garlic bagels, whole wheat bagels.

Thanks for asking.

1. No. He kant tell me what to do.

2. No iPod.

3. Toast.

4. One fluently, one half-assedly. I once had fluency in two ancient languages but there was no call to use them conversationally.

5. Onion, plain, pumpernickel, seeded.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

1. Does it matter?

2. Don't own an iPod or any MP3 player

3. Tea

4. 1, a can read a bit of French and Spanish, enough to get around as a tourist.

5. I like sesame seed bagels

1. I couldn't get past snickering everytime my philosophy prof said the word "Kant." Same thing with my history professor's discussion of "Ilsa Koch."

2. I don't have an Ipod.

3. Haven't eaten anything today.

4. One well, one not so well, and have a working knowledge of several Muskogean dialects, too.

5. I don't like bagels.

1. I dunno. I'm still trying to figure it out...
2. "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil.
3. Wheat Chex.
4. 1 1/2. English and some German.
5. Yeah, but oh boy are they bad for you. Chocolate Chip or Blueberry.

2. What is this Ipod of which you speak? Some new radio station? :shrug:

3. Maui strawberries!

4. Well? English. In descending order thereafter: Spanish, French, American Sign Language, and Hawaiian.

5. Fuhgedaboudit! I did live in NYC for a couple of years, y'know. Almost any kind that does not involve cinnamon or raisins. I expect to have some during my annual East Coast run starting at the end of the month, though Mom and Repuke Stepdad aren't really bagel people.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
Ah, no, 'cause if I did I'd be sitting in a corner with a thumb up my ass afraid to do anything should it become a universal law.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
No iPod, no song.

3. What did you have for breakfast?
Several Hostess Donettes and a couple cups of hot chocolate.

4. How many languages do you speak?
only one.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
Plain, sesame seed and poppy seed only. Must have plenty of creme cheese spread.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"
No.

2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
"What It's Like," by Everlast

3. What did you have for breakfast?
Coffee.

4. How many languages do you speak?
Five and a little French.

5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
Occasionally, with raisins and cinnamon.

1. Do you believe in Kant's categorical imperative:

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

That question is too complicated for my prehistoric caveman brain to comprehend. Therefore, my answer is, "I LIKE HORSIES"


2. What is the last song you heard on your Ipod?
"Burnin' Streets" by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros



3. What did you have for breakfast?
Two bowls of some nuts-n-twigs cereal


4. How many languages do you speak?
Only two. Both very poorly.


5. Do you like bagels? What kind?
Yes, just about any bagel is good with me, but I really like pumpernickel

that if truth is universal, per Kant, then it is imperative that one guide a murderer to his/her intended victim if asked. I also agree with Kierkegaard in that lawlessness is a result of the autonomy inherent in the categorical imperative.

2. I ain't gotta iPod.

3. Don't eat breakfast.

4. 1.1.

5. Chewy ones with cream cheese and a bit of onion.

1. Huh?

2. Radiohead - "Electioneering"

3. Croissant sandwich w/ egg & sausage

4. Just English, but I can sort of get by in Spanish.

5. Pretty much any kind except the fruit-flavored ones.