Groves Honors Philosophy

I recently re-watched T he Truman Show this week, and I thought, wow!  The ethical dilemmas; the allegory of the cave comparisons; Christof...

Phil Connors, the cynical TV reporter (played by Bill Murray) and central character of Groundhog Day , is tasked with doing a lame assignmen...

  Which pill would you have taken and why? Neo is offered the  red pill  and the  blue pill  by Morpheus in the opening act of  the Matrix ....

    Here are some thoughts I'd like you to respond to in your answer to this blog: 1. Philosopher Immanuel Kant would likely say that bo...

  I kept wondering how Hellenistic philosophy applied to today's world as we briefly discussed it this week.  I didn't have a lot of...

  So we discussed a llittle bit of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which he used in The Republic  (his most famous philosophical work and ...

Please make sure y ou read the chapters, "Natural Philosophers" and "Democritus", pgs. 30-48 in order to do a great job ...

  The subject of genetic engineering / manipulation came up during  Hanna , though in an unrealistic sci-fi scenario where the CIA tried mak...

  "For a few immortals to live, many people must die." We are presented with a future world in the movie,  In Time , in which time...

  Please read the following article: " Why Doesn't the Batman Just Kill the Joker?" by Jesse Richards.   http://www.huffington...

  Here are some thoughts I'd like you to respond to in your answer to this blog: 1. Philosopher Immanuel Kant would likely say that both...