Category: philosophy

Defending someone accused of robbing a bank

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You are defending someone accused of robbing a bank. It’s already been shown that they actually committed the robbery – for one thing your client confessed, and the confession is backed up by footage from a security camera. In short, there’s no doubt they did it.
Your goal is to argue that even though they physically committed the act, they are not responsible, since they were not acting freely. Your defense should focus on the the concepts of determinism and incompatibilism, as set forth in the Week 9 handout, attached here: 2023-04-17 – Free will.docx
In short, I want you to explain why determinism, combined with the conception of freedom that underlies incompatibilism, supports the conclusion that your client was not acting freely when they robbed the bank.
Don’t worry whether appeals to determinism and incompatibilism would actually work in a court of law. Let’s assume that, in this case, the judge agreed to consider your argument.

 

Philosophy of worship

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What is my philosophy of worship, and how will it affect my ministry? Minimum of 1,500 words. Title page, table of contents, and bibliography must be included. Bibliography must contain at least 10 pertinent, scholarly sources.

Analyzing historical or current event or person as seen from the perspective of a philosopher

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You can choose your own topic about an historical or current event or person as seen from the perspective of a philosopher. For example, what would Plato have said about the election of President Trump? How would Arendt have understood the popular hysteria leading to the Rwandan Genocide?

 

Free will

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Some people think they have free will, but an alternate view is that our decisions are the result of the choices of others. Do you think you freely made the choice of attending your College, or do you think the decisions of others affected your choice of which school you attend? Why do you think that?

Both of the following elements need to be in the paper to get full credit:

A: Choose a position using one of the philosophers we have discussed in class.

· Here, please write about Jean Paul Sartre who says “Whatever happens in our lives are always our responsibility”

B: Write a detailed essay with examples from your life to support your position.

American Portrait Frederick Douglass

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  1. Include background information (who, what, when, where and why) on the article’s purpose, and then respond to the below:
  2. Frederick Douglass became the most prominent antislavery spokesman leading up to the Civil War. Explain the transformation over 20 years from when he advocated New England seceding and rejecting the U.S. Constitution to joining with the new Republican Party’s view that the Constitution be treated “as an antislavery document.”
  3. Today there is a political divide in the country, do you believe that the U.S. should break apart?

American Portrait Frederick Douglass

Posted on | by Brian Leakey
  1. Include background information (who, what, when, where and why) on the article’s purpose, and then respond to the below:
  2. Frederick Douglass became the most prominent antislavery spokesman leading up to the Civil War. Explain the transformation over 20 years from when he advocated New England seceding and rejecting the U.S. Constitution to joining with the new Republican Party’s view that the Constitution be treated “as an antislavery document.”
  3. Today there is a political divide in the country, do you believe that the U.S. should break apart?

Moral theory determines whether euthanasia is ethical

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Write an essay on how moral theory determines whether euthanasia is ethical or not, drawing upon your study this semester of life issues. Do you think a doctor could omit to give antibiotics to a disabled child and plead that s/he foresaw the death but did not intend it? Give two examples — one in which euthanasia is the motive, and one in which it is not — and use the Principle of Double Effect (“PDE”) to evaluate the morality of the doctor’s actions in each example: see the PDF #2 (on Moodle) of David Oderberg, Applied Ethics, page 80 (note: Oderberg’s discussion of this question begins on page 74, and “PDE” is mentioned on page 76).
PDF #2 (on Moodle): Oderberg-on-Euthanasia.pdf https://learn.twu.ca/pluginfile.php/1073290/mod_assign/introattachment/0/Oderberg-on-Euthanasia.pdf?forcedownload=1

Fairphone and from Douglas Rushkoff

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Discuss what can we learn from Fairphone and from Douglas Rushkoff, in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (especially in Chapter 5, pages 228-232), about how to implement the “post-growth climate mitigation scenarios” that Jason Hickel and others talk about in this article (PDF #1):
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The nature-versus-nurture debate

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The nature-versus-nurture debate questions the extent to which a person’s behavior and personality are a product of genetics (i.e., nature) or whether they are a product of upbringing, environment, life experiences, and influences (i.e., nurture).

As a longstanding study in the field of development, this question is critical to explore when consider factors shaping development.

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Think about your behaviors and personality. Do you think these are pre-wired, meaning you inherited these as a result of genetics, or do you feel your personality is a result of your upbringing, your environment, and your life experiences? What is one example of how your development was influenced by nature? What is one example of how your development was shaped by nurture? Which do you think has had more influence on your development nature or nurture? Why?