What is a question I can stump my Philosophy teacher with?

[Docta Paul]

I'm taking intro to philosophy and I want to ask that perfect question. Not to stump the teacher, necessarily, but to make him think and also make the other students think "What a good question!"

[Paul V]

Ask him to name every kind of creature that lives in the ocean....

[Century25]

Ask the prof to relate the following.. as it pertains to our world today.. and the USA in particular:

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From: Carl Sandburg's "Four Preludes..
On Playthings of the Wind"


"The Past Is a Bucket of Ashes"

1

The woman named Tomorrow
sits with a hairpin in her teeth
and takes her time
and does her hair the way she wants it
and fastens at last the last braid and coil
and puts the hairpin where it belongs
and turns and drawls: Well, what of it?
My grandmother, Yesterday, is gone.
What of it? Let the dead be dead.

2

The doors were cedar
and the panel strips of gold
and the girls were golden girls
and the panels read and the girls chanted:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us every was.
The doors are twisted on broken hinges.
Sheets of rain swish through on the wind
where golden girls ran and the panels read:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us ever was.


3

It has happened before.
Strong men put up a city and got
a nation together,
And paid singers to sing and women
to warble: We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation,
nothing like us ever was.

And while the singers sang
and the strong men listened
and paid the singers well
and felt good about it all,
there were rats and lizards who listened
... and the only listeners left now
... are ... the rats .. and the lizards.

And there are black crows
crying, "Caw, caw,"
bringing mud and sticks
building a nest over the words carved
on the doors where the panels were cedar
and the strips on the panels were gold
and the golden girls came singing:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us ever was.

The only singers now are crows crying, "Caw, caw,"
And the sheets of rain whine in the wind and doorways.
And the only listeners now are ... the rats ... and the lizards.

4

The feet of the rats
scribble on the doorsills;
the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints
chatter the pedigrees of the rats
and babble of the blood
and gabble of the breed
of the grandfathers and the great-grandfathers
of the rats.

And the wind shifts
and the dust on a doorsill shifts
and even the writing of the rat footprints
tells us nothing, nothing at all
about the greatest city, the greatest nation
where the strong men listened
and the women warbled: Nothing like us ever was...


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[Missy K]

Immaunal Kant was a very famous absolutist. Meaning he had absolute laws that there would be no exception around. Now a Moral subjectivist has moral laws that do have flaws. We make our own moral laws based on our moral values. Now if Kant claimed to be an absolutist, then how can he prove that he does not have moral laws (being an absolutist), when the things he believed were based off of his own moralities. i.e "no killing of another human" how can he say that this is absolutly wrong, and that no matter what one says or believes, it is 'wrong'. How can he prove this is absolutley wrong, when he based this law off of his own moral belifes.
I dont know if i made much sense...being a baby freshman in highschool...but i tried.

[dta5207]

what are the three things we know for sure? Answer: I exist. I create.(thoughts) I am aware.

[hotpinkmasala405]

just google rhetorical questions