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09-15-2011, 09:26 PM
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Help on a course
I hope I don't get failed for this and hopefully this is in the right thread. I have an essay I have to do for philosophy and could benefit from any input you guys might have.
Basically, it is typical to think of the time after one's death to be a misfortune. But we don't in the same way, think of the time before one's birth as misfortune. Is this misfortune justified?
I can think of Nagel's perspective on the loss or deprivation of a life that has been lived. The death of a person is regarded as a loss of time from which he can be potentially living, while in birth, there is no loss of potential living time.
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09-23-2011, 09:00 AM
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Banned By Establishment
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what?? wtf is this stupid stuff??
your teacher must make weird videos...
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09-23-2011, 11:17 AM
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MiX iT Up!
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write the essay about how you have to think about stupid stuff is a misfortune in itself and how your time should be spent saving baby whales 
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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who couldn't give up on them.
Make the effort and take the risk..
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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09-24-2011, 10:26 PM
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I STILL don't get it
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a misfortune from who's prospective?
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09-25-2011, 10:21 AM
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I don't get it
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and this is the reason why an arts degree will lead you absolutly no where in life ....
and I have one 
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09-25-2011, 09:17 PM
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What are your opinons towards including a hook in the intro paragraph of your phil essays? And also adding pronouns like "I, we, us"
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