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Philosophical Health Check Analysis

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Philosophical Health Check
Jeremy Stangroom defines a Philosophical Health Check as “a test designed to identify tensions, or contradictions, between various beliefs one holds.” (Stangroom, 2015) Additionally he advises that the check does not “aim to identify which beliefs are true or false,” but the check attempts to identify “which sets of beliefs may not be compatible with each other.” (Stangroom, 2015) After taking the Philosophical Tension Check I discovered that 37% of the people, myself included, share a tension in our belief that there are absolute truths. Even though there is tension in my beliefs, I do not feel that they are truly in conflict.
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If we were to assume that history books are non-fiction, based on either an individual’s own experiences, or a societies’ experiences, then these assumptions line up effortlessly with my previous belief. Robert Evans, a man far wiser than myself, once said “There are three sides to every story - yours, mine, and the truth.” Because the events being documented in history books are being written based off of an individual, or a societies’ experiences, it is hard to argue that their experiences are not their own truths. Those who feel that the Holocaust did not occur are really saying that the individuals who experienced the Holocaust first hand are …show more content…

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