fandomhigh | Philosophy 101- Week #whatever, last class- Period 4

Really, Jaye only had to get through one day. One day. And then she wasn't technically a teacher and could be like "Oh, I just run the radio station, live with the fact that I'm wearing jeans." She could get through this.

Even if she was dressed like a flight attendant.

For once they were in a normal classroom. Somehow she hadn't thought a Danger Shopped theater setting would go over well. Which, by the way, did anyone know she had a real classroom? Jaye hadn't. "Right. So. This is your final," she said, passing out the exams. Which, by the way, she'd totally written up two weeks ago. Because Jaye was a terrible person and of course she'd make you take a real exam after a semester of movies. "Take it, stay till the end because... because."

When she'd passed everything out, she stood in front of her desk. "And if anyone needs to leave for any reason, the exits are here and here," she said, pointing.

What. They were dressed like flight attendants. Someone had to do that eventually.

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1. Compare and contrast skepticism and realism.

2. Why was Galileo condemned by the Roman Catholic Church?

3. Define Confucianism and give your opinion on it.

4. Explain "I think, therefore I am" as reasoned by Descartes.

5. The 18th century is thought of as the Age of Enlightenment. Explain why.

EC: Explain your own personal philosophy.

[Handwavy is fine!]

.... Really? Honestly, Bruce was more surprised that this seemed like a reasonably good Philosophy exam more than anything. And once he knew back at the beginning of the semester that he wouldn't be learning anything about the subject here, he made sure to do some studying off to the side, so he was fully prepared.

Of course he did.

He gave extensive, accurate answers to all the questions, including the extra credit, which essentially focused on how despite the fact that people could be driven to evil due to circumstances with little effort, they were inherently good and this could be shown if given the proper example to lead them. It was heady stuff.

Caroline was going to hyperventilate. This is what she got for not taking those stupid movies seriously and failing to dissect them for their philosophical meaning!

Which was why her answers were starting to look like a book. No way was she failing this! No way!

Lex answered all the questions concisely, yet informatively. He figured Jaye would appreciate not having to read essay length answers.

Sam just...had no idea. He had nothing. So, he wrote a few short sentences that were mostly opinion and then made some doodles in the margin that he hoped would get him credit for creativity.

Seriously, he had nothing.

Goose was suddenly grateful that he had a basic understanding of philosophy before taking this class and was at least able to give reasonably decent responses to the questions.

Scully found this new veering direction of Fandom disconcerting, to say the least. But she had actually gone to college, and taken a philosophy course before. Not to mention having Mulder's eidetic memory used to explain various concepts at random for longer than she cared to think about.

So she was able to give accurate, if not detailed, answers to all of these (a bit more with Galileo, and what a ridiculous set-up that had been) and then ended with, Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe. But this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it.

Tara panicked a bit as she looked at the exam. She knew some of this stuff, but not nearly enough to pass a test, and it seemed unfair to make her deal with this and uniforms on the same day.

She started with the Galileo question and began filling in the best answers she could come up with, which were still incomplete. She tended to work slow; she was still writing about her personal philosophy when the class period came to an end. But as she handed it in, she didn't think she'd embarrassed herself too badly

Incongrouous with the rest of the course or not, William was rather in his element when it came to this exam. So Jaye was going to get detailed, thorough answers to all of those questions. Yes, even the extra credit. Especially the extra credit, which delved in to how his religious faith was sometimes at odds with his scientific curiousity ~~and this was why he and Scully totally needed to talk more~~.

Seriously? Seriously?

There was so much hate going on as Jake poured over these questions. His answers were relatively short and pretty much all wrong as he made a vague stab at it.

1. A realist believes in reality and a skeptic thinks everything can be fake.
2.
3. Confucianism is confusing as this wasn't in the movie.
4. If I couldn't think, I wouldn't be human.
5. Science progressed and everyone got smarter.

EC: Life's a bitch and then you die.

Like he knew anything about philosophy. Whatever. He was going to draw doodles in the margin of the paper while trying to pretend that he wasn't one bit worried that this whole exam was going to ruin all his plans.

Okay. Petra could do this. She knew at least a little, even if it was just vague basics, about all of the questions on the test, either from past history classes or stuff she'd learned for pageants, and she answered them to the best of her ability, resisting the urge to pad her answers out with the sort of vague talk one used in a beauty pageant to distract from the fact that you had no idea what you were talking about.

Then she answered the extra credit question, which she was hoping was the actual exam. She actually had a pretty well-developed personal philosophy, which she concisely laid out in clear terms.

Rilla didn't know any of this.

It was entirely possible that even if she'd taken a legitimate philosophy class, she wouldn't have known any of it then, either, but she wouldn't have felt so humiliated by it.

She tried her best anyway:

1. Compare and contrast skepticism and realism.
--Skepticism is not wanting to believe something is real until you have proof. Realism is the proof, since it's real!

2. Why was Galileo condemned by the Roman Catholic Church?
--Well it shouldn't really matter because no one cares what the Roman Catholic Church thinks anyway. But didn't he think the world wasn't flat or didn't stay still or something?

3. Define Confucianism and give your opinion on it.
--I think it was very confusing.

4. Explain "I think, therefore I am" as reasoned by Descartes.
--Well, it'd be awfully hard to think and be someone else, wouldn't it?

5. The 18th century is thought of as the Age of Enlightenment. Explain why.
--Because the 18th century hadn't seen the 21st century yet.

1. Skepticism is when you're skeptical. Realism is when you're real.

2. Because he pissed them off.

3. Wasn't Confucius some old Chinese dude? It's okay, I guess.

4. What if I don't think? Am I not then?

5. Because someone decided to call it that and it stuck.

EC: My personal philosophy is...uh. Be awesome.

George didn't actually care if she passed this class. Not because she was dead, but because she was George. So ... yeah.

1. Compare and contrast skepticism and realism.

I'm skeptical that anyone's going to actually read this exam. Because I'm a realist.

2. Why was Galileo condemned by the Roman Catholic Church?

He said a bunch of things they weren't ready to hear. Churches don't like being contradicted by science. Or anybody else. So they were going to kill him, but he recanted. Socrates didn't recant, and they killed him. Being right is great and all, but being alive is way better. Moral of the story: recant.

3. Define Confucianism and give your opinion on it.

It's an Eastern Buddhist philosophy that most frat guys turn into really lame jokes by making fun of the way they think Chinese people speak. It's really belittling to the vast history of Chinese culture.

4. Explain "I think, therefore I am" as reasoned by Descartes.

It's wrong. I think, but I'm not. It's a long story.

5. The 18th century is thought of as the Age of Enlightenment. Explain why.

I'm pretty sure that's when people got serious about science and stopped drinking the same water they took shits in. That's pretty enlightened.

EC: Explain your own personal philosophy.

Enjoy what you have. You could lose it tomorrow. Think about what you say before you say it. Seize the day, because it really is never too late. Not even when you think it is.

Edited 2012-04-19 00:29 (UTC)

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