I feel that after reading some of my fellow classmates bloggpost I have a better understand of the text we had to read and the question needed to be answered. I have never been good with philosophy and have always had a hard time, not necessarily understanding it but really believe or agree with what is said. Though it is hard to understand some points made in this text, I think everyone have tried their hardest to make out what we read from Russell.
I think this book was understandable but I had a hard time understanding why we necessarily had to read those text and not others. I feel that Russell made a good example when he talked about the table in his text and I think if he hadn’t mention it it would have been hard to understand what was trying to explain. But I feel, personally, that this theme was to philosophical and didn’t always give a clear point in what we should learn. Because even with the questions asked for the text, I didn’t think I learned more in this theme than I have done in other Theory and Method courses that I took in other schools i've studied at. I don’t mean to say I didn’t learn anything, because that I did, but I feel like there could have been other things or other text to read. Maybe text that gave us more examples or other authors point of view on this subject.
Now my thoughts on this theme might be because the guest teacher couldn’t attend on the classes. This might have made the content of this theme lacking, because maybe the teacher could have explained the text more and we could have had a better discussion on what the author talked about. Of course it was unfortunate the teacher couldn't attend and even though I think it effected this theme, I still think the problem was handled in a good way and thanks to other classmates the understanding of this theme was easier thanks to their bloggpost and input on the text.
So I hope in the next theme with the help of lectures and seminars,we will have a easier time understanding what we should learn from the text and actually get to discuss the theme to se what other opinions there are out there. Because this weeks theme was okay but in the end I didn't feel like I understood complete what the point of the text was and what we should have learned.
Like you mentioned, I don't think your not alone when it comes to not being accustomed to deal with philosophical questions and thought Russell presents in his book but after also reading your previous post I think you got the general idea very well. Further, when it comes to understanding why it had to be Russell's text and not another author's text I think it does not really matter simply because I perceive the objective of this task more focused on increasing our awareness toward the connection between perception, knowledge and there of the pitfalls which one may encounter when in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding in the future.
SvaraRaderaThank you for that comment. It feels good to know I got some things right because I was really unsure when reading the text. I have read things like this before but it still makes me confused at times. So getting confirmation on that is appreciated.
Radera