Blog #3

What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?

I think Marx's ideals on communism are especially compelling. In theory, the principles of communism would establish equality within a society. Unfortunately, because of government  interference, the ideals of communism have not been established as they should have been. I do not think that these principles would conflict at all with the personal principles previously identified. I think the principles would compliment one another. I think a society where competition, heiarchy, and human labor as a commodity are abolished, provides a foundation for a happier society. If everyone were getting paid the same amount of money, people would finally be able to do what they loved, instead of what profession or job would pay the most. I think in living in a society where there is no need to be better than someone else, I would be able to withold my basic principles of not stealing, lying, and cheating. Also, I would be able to be even more open to different opportunities. I would be able to explore careers and choose what would make me the happiest. I think my most important personal principle is to have an open mind and to not judge others. I feel that if I continue to live according to that principle, than I would be able to live with the other principles.


I commented on http://dianaalimi.blogspot.com/ blog.

Blog #2

Blog 2 - What personal principles did you adhere to before entering this course and where did they come from? Were they taught to you? Did you develop them on your own? How have our readings and discussions impacted those principles? Of the principles covered which are you drawn to the most and why?

Before entering this course a lot of my personal principles were influenced by my family, friends, environment, and society. At a young age, at home I was taught not to curse, lie, steal, or cheat. These values came from my mother whom had a Christian background. I was taught to be nice to others because that is what I was taught in grade school and my mom also enforced that belief. When I moved away to college, I experienced many things that I would not have otherwise had I still be living at home. I met many people with different cultural beliefs and also different values. Growing up I made many mistakes. I did a lot of bad things which inevitably had bad consequences. I fell and got back up again and I can really relate to the existentialist view of the human being. The existentialist believes that “you” are responsible for your own actions. I completely agree with that. I am currently in the quest for spirituality; I do not have a certain belief set in stone. I feel that because I do not really know where I stand spiritually or even religiously, it is easier to just say that we are responsible for ourselves, and everything that happens is because we choose for them to happen.  I think that the readings and discussions in class have allowed me to become even more open than I already was. I feel that I can think and discuss for longer periods of time because of all the possible principles that there are.  

I commented on Brittany's post, http://brittbloom22.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-2.html?showComment=1330893948357#c2704854670603541595