Examine a specific artwork influenced by a literary work and how the artist captured the subject or story.
specific artwork:
Asher B. Durand’s Thanatopsis (influenced by William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”)
Category: philosophy
The movement and specific work
Examine the movement and specific work in relation to historical and political influences of the movement. Include a one paragraph summary of the plot before moving on to the examination of the work in relation to the movement.
The reasons Socrates gives for not escaping jail
Discuss and evaluate the reasons Socrates gives for not escaping jail even though he had ample opportunity to do so. What is the nature of the “social contract” here that Socrates is following?
Plato’s dialogue
Based on Plato’s dialogue, Apology, (a) in what sense does Socrates claim to be wise? (b) Summarize and evaluate the value of the Socratic Method and Socratic wisdom and whether this method and attitude are valuable for a democratic society such as ours.
Professionalism and Philosophy
Teaching/Professionalism and Philosophy/Early Childhood Development/Early Childhood Education in the United States.
Prompt:
Continue to dig deeper in your work creating an inclusive environment for all children. As a professional in an early childhood environment, it is your responsibility to work with individual children and their families, coworkers and the greater society. As children are from diverse family units, how will you teach children as part of the classroom community and the larger society? How will you work with coworkers on a daily basis? Explain why this work is important.
Instructions:
Continue to dig deeper in your work creating an inclusive environment for all children. As a professional in an early childhood environment, it is your responsibility to work with individual children and their families, coworkers and the greater society. As children are from diverse family units, how will you teach children as part of the classroom community and the larger society? How will you work with coworkers on a daily basis? Explain why this work is important.
The nature-versus-nurture debate.
Discuss your perspective on the nature-versus-nurture debate. Additionally, discuss how epigenetics fits into this debate. Can you identify areas in your life that have been related to nurture and others that have been related to nature?
Exploring climate change
Form the research and arguments that you plan to make on Exploring climate change for your final paper into an outline. Each major point of your argument should become its own topic sentence with the supporting minor arguments/information, organized in the most persuasive order, and referenced to your source material.
Simple subjectivism and cultural subjectivism
What is Simple Subjectivism, and how is it different from Cultural Relativism? What view regarding the truth value of moral statements underlies both these theories of ethics, and how is that view different from that held by Emotivism?
Include ideas from “The Elements of Moral Philosophy” chapter 2 and 3 (attached it). But you can include other research as well.
A vision of Socratic philosophy
Although Socrates never wrote anything, his ideas were captured and communicated by his student, Plato. You have already read a selection from Plato’s Republic. Also consider the document “The Defense of Socrates,” (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13726/13726-h/13726-h.htm) in which Socrates defends himself when he is on trial for his life before the Athenian assembly. How do these documents trace out a vision of Socratic philosophy? What is the goal? What is the method? In what ways might the philosophical approach still be of value today?
Fetal tissue
Is fetal tissue research justified?