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?
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 …
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 …
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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):
Choose a work of art, music, literature, philosophy, theater or anything other related to humanities from Unit One. Analyze the work you have chosen in the context of its own culture. How is it different from its equivalent in our own culture?
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 …
Based on your teaching/learning experiences and pedagogical philosophy, do you consider yourself to be a linear thinker, holistic teacher, Laissez-Faire advocate, critical theorist, traditionalist, empiricist, or reconceptualize? Why?
In a two-page essay (500 words), Do you think the Senses Can Account for All of Our Knowledge? Outline Hume’s objection to the use of inductive reasoningto secure knowledge about how things will be in the future. How does Hume’s objection here represent his empiricism, and his skepticism? Do you believethat Hume’s discussion of induction …
