Law, Laws and the Law.

Tying together some ideas in our reading of Stephen Law on faith, where he also discusses facts and laws of science (Law, 2003), with ideas in "Making a Strong Argument: Should, Ought to and Must" in Hartmann and Blass (p. 219 - 220), where we are instructed to move from factual statements to propositions or commands which might express a moral or legal imperative is a short online exercise by Jeremy Stangroom (2012), which you might find both fun and illuminating.

Stangroom's "Philosophical Health Check" takes only a few minutes to ask you some questions, and then gives a brief summary and analysis of the consistency of your ideas, which is also compared to everyone else who has already taken the test. Naturally, we hope that there is no or very little tension between our beliefs, that they are are consistent with each other.

I thought it also functions as a neat reading comprehension test. As Stangroom advises are the start, "each statement is carefully worded, so you need to pay at least a little bit of attention!"

Have fun, and if you like, share your ideas afterwards.

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Reference

Law, S. (2003). faith in the twenty-first century. In The Xmas Files: The Philosophy of Christmas (pp. 113 - 123). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Stangroom, J. (2012). Philosophical Health Check. Philosophy Experiments. Retrieved January 28, 2013 from http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/health/Default.aspx