Why was Socrates considered so wise? How do his ideas dovetail with the book ON BEING UNKNOWING? Provide key quotes to shore up your response.
Read: ON BEING UNKNOWING.pdf, HOW SOCRATES DIED.pdf
Category: philosophy
Just Odds
Why does your David Lane believe there is a conflict between religion and science? Do you agree? Do you disagree? Back up your answers.
Read: Just Odds.pdf, On Being Unknown.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY40og9z-p0
The study of ethics is philosophical in nature
1. The study of ethics is philosophical in nature; it is the attempt to determine the right and wrong features of our acts. But it could have practical implications as well. Take some time to think about what those might be. Present your conclusions here in a careful and articulate manner.
2. For the philosopher, “because God said so” is an unsatisfactory answer to the question “why is act X moral (or immoral)?” Carefully explain why that is so.
3. The lecture “Knowing and Doing” says “One might believe that in order to live well and good, the child does not require a better answer to his question than the one offered.” Do you believe this? In other words, do you believe that it is possible to live a moral life without knowing why it is a moral life? Or do you believe that to live morally you are required to have a philosophical basis for your beliefs about ethics?
Answer the questions below Need 2 of these (2 different sets of answers for this below)
4. The nature versus nurture controversy leaves out a possible alternative: Radical freedom. According to Pico della Mirandola, we have been created by God to determine our own destiny, but this radical freedom also has a moral dimension. We can choose to become ‘brutes’ and wallow in moral evil or rise even to the level of divinity. According to Pico, God grants this freedom to the human species as a whole—not just individuals.
What do you think about these alternative visions of what it means to be human; are we the products of biology, environment, or radically free?
5. As you see, it takes knowledge to be who we are and who we will become. To that end, we need also to consider the nature of human knowledge.
What does Russell have to say about the relationship between common sense and scientific knowledge? Is ‘sense-data’ a pathway to such knowledge, or a distortion of it? Are we deluded in our faith that we can really understand the world? Does this faith necessarily require a ‘mystical’ element as is present in Pico, and possibly in Russell as well?
Answer these questions. Need 2 sets of different answers
1. What is marketing (use your textbook and Internet sources)? Provide an example of marketing.
2. What interests you about marketing?
3. How do company and marketing strategy relate to each other?
Philosophic Dialogue
Write an 1800- to 2000-word script. The script will be based on the theme of morality from Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot, but with modern characters in a unique setting. In this new script, the characters should each have a discernible position about morality. Both characters will try to indoctrinate one’s personal philosophy on to others. However, the catch is, as they add their personal philosophies to the other’s, they also subtract from their own philosophical core. The dialogue needs to represent the positions fairly and there needs to be development in their positions, whether that development entails growth through challenge and objection, or contradiction, or both, or some other way. Think about the techniques of Diderot, including contradiction, both internal and external. Please include satire, humor, and clever hidden stage/narration notes. Don’t make it blatantly obvious they are speaking about morality and their own philosophic beliefs.
Reentry in corrections
For this project, you’ll compose a three-to-five page research paper titled, “Reentry in Corrections.” In your paper, you’ll research three reentry programs and evaluate them given the knowledge you’ve gained from this course, including risk of recidivism, reentry and parole methods and statistics, and goals of reentry. You’ll summarize the goals of each program, and you’ll draw your research from at least three reputable sources in addition to the websites of the three programs.
Einstein vs. Boh
Read and watch these materials, then write a 300 word analysis.
1 | Einstein vs. Bohr: the EPR paper of 1935 by Albert Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen http://sites.google.com/site/msacmagazines/Home/quantumpaper1.pdf
2 | Bohr vs. Einstein: Niels Bohr’s rejoinder to Einstein in physical review, 1935 by Niels Bohr http://sites.google.com/site/msacmagazines/Home/bohrfinal.pdf
3.An Interview with Brian Greene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqpNudIss4
Ontological Argument
Ontological Argument – Referencing Saint Anselm, Rene Descartes, Leibniz, Kant’s
4-Pages, how my views have evolved
8- Pages, current view on the matter, how the matter has been approached by some major philosophical or contemporary philosophy.
Socrates The Philosopher
Choose one of the philosophers we have looked at and address the following questions:
The Philosopher I’ve chosen to talk about is Socrates.
How does the philosopher you have chosen relate to said topic? What do they have to say about it? Cite an example or two from
what do you, as a practicing philosopher for the moment, have to say about said topic?
Discuss how you either agree or disagree with the philosopher you have chosen in the closing paragraphs of your essay.
The ethics of care in the question of war
You will be writing a critical response essay this week. Taking the ethics of care from this week, how could you use this reasoning process in the question of war? We know that ethical reasoning is a tool, a method. How might feminist ethics, to build up this question, be used in issues of violence? I will expect 1-2
pages.
Loved one died of a terrible illness
write an essay in which you answer the following questions:
Sandra just experienced a tragedy – her very close loved one died of a terrible illness. (1) Drawing on our discussion of the problem of evil, how might Sandra invoke that experience in an argument that God does not exist? (2) Drawing on our discussion of the responses to the problem of evil, how would you defend the existence of God against this argument? That is, how would you argue that even though this tragedy happened, it does not mean there is no God.
Your essay should not exceed 500 words, and should draw on the concepts and arguments we discussed in our last class, and that are set forth in the Week 11 handout: 2023-04-17 – Does God Exist.docx https://mdc.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-14599226-dt-content-rid-194405938_1/xid-194405938_1
Note: I am not asking you to say whether you believe in God. I’m just asking you to set out the argument against such a belief, and then a response to that argument