From Brooklyn Center's Socrates Café in Minnesota
Started February 21st, 2005 at Panerá Bread
This group is still meeting but we are no longer listing all of the questions on this site. Feel free to contact Russ with any questions regarding this group.
1/2/06
Happy New Year Everyone. No meeting today.
12/26/05
No meeting today due to holidays.
12/19/05
Why do we label?
Which is better, existence or non-existence?
Is there any good in evil?
12/12/05
11/28/05
Why is privacy important?
Is there a right and wrong?
What is more important cooperation or competition?
11/21/05
How real is the nuclear threat?
Which is more important, order or justice?
Why should we amend the constitution about religious concepts?
11/14/05
Should corporations have the same free speech rights as individuals?
When is bigotry merely paranoia and when is it really bigotry?
Is Bush criminally incompetent or merely criminal?
Should religion impose it values on society?
11/7/05
Would it make a difference to the greater good if we as individuals consumed less?
10/31/05
What projects are worthy of public enterprise and why?
Why is privacy important?
10/24/05
Why is privacy important?
What projects are worthy of public enterprise and why?
Are clothes really necessary?
How do we construct identity?
10/17/05
What are the pluses and minuses of national service?
How effective is our penal system?
When is it ok to quit?
Is imagination both master and servant?
Are all myths and legends based on fact?
10/10/05
What is the best character quality
10/3/05
Are all myths based on fact?
Why should we do good?
What is the best character quality?
9/26/05
Why do bad things happen?
What is courage?
What is wisdom?
What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge?
9/19/05
What should we do about poverty in disaster prone areas?
Are we truly our brother's keeper?
Is poverty a moral or an economic problem?
9/12/05
How would shortening the work week affect the U.S.?
Who's to say who's right?
What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
9/5/05
Labor Day - No Socrates Cafe today
8/29/05
How do we balance the rights of individuals and the rights of society?
Should national service be required?
Should we teach intelligent design?
What is a person's most important character quality?
8/22/05
What does poetry have to do with philosophy?
Should the U.S. require universal national service?
How do you balance the rights of individuals versus the rights of society?
Is there any inherent value in truth?
8/15/05
Is faith in reason absurd?
Are religion and science compatible?
Is one religious perspective more authoritative then another?
Is there any inherent value in truth?
Is a scientist more of an atheist than religious?
8/8/05
What is freedom?
What is wisdom?
What is more important, what happens to you or what you think happens to you?
Is it possible to be a real person in the real world?
What is the best way to build a virtuous society?
8/1/05
What would immortality be like and what would be it's point?
When should law trump reason?
Why is news never surprising?
7/27/05
What is the nature of evil?
What shall we make of the gap between goals and actuality?
What is the most important character quality?
What does it mean to be a team player?
7/18/05
Is there ever a "right"time for something?
Are some existing things more real than others and can we ourselves be more real?
Is vengance a necessary part of justice?
7/11/05
Does the free market system include an ethical system?
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Is there right and wrong?
Could the U.S. switch to a 32 hour work week?
7/4/05
No gathering held. Happy 4th of July!
6/27/05
Is the “greatest good” for the “greatest number” an adequate base for ethics?
How does dogma conflict with relativism?
Is law necessary?
What is family?
6/20/05
What is the balance between self esteem and reality?
What is wisdom and why do philosophers love it so?
Is power ever good?
6/13/05
Can you be too responsible?
Do ends justify the means?
Is intelligence a gift or a curse?
Can you try too hard?
6/6/05
When is lying ok?
Would you have assassinated Hitler if you had known the future?
Why are we always in a hurry?
Is morality more then right intention?
5/30/05
Why isn't happiness the only thing that matters?
Is power ever good?
5/23/05
Is the human species evolving?
Is morality more than good intention?
What is common courtesy?
5/16/05
Are there moral absolutes?
Why do we always pick the negative?
What’s the most important thing in your life?
5/9/05
Is discourse more nasty then it used to be?
Should corporations have the same rights as individuals?
Why do people choose to be victims?
What is the good society?
5/2/05
How do you change someone’s mind?
What makes for the good society?
What is the most important thing to you?
4/26/05
Informal discussion from cloning to religion and thoughts in between.
4/11/05
Why do we work so hard?
Is it necessary to restrict immigration?
Is the Patriot Act restricting our civil liberties?
4/4/05
Can man be unselfish?
Why is it so important to be unique in America?
Is America in decline?
What happened to our manners?
3/28/05
Are we a good judge in our own case?
Do people have less value than formerly?
What is a friend?
3/21/05
Is there a right and wrong?
Why is there so much intolerance?
Is science or philosophy better at revealing the truth?
3/14/05
What is the most important question?
Is guilt good?
Should sources remain anonymous?
3/7/05
What is enough?
2/28/05
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Is there a right and a wrong?
2/21/2005 - initial meeting - 13 people at Panerá Bread
How does America Stop Genocide?
Do American care about African Natives?
What is enough?
What is courage?