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What do you think an art would look like decoupled from authenticity or commodificaiton? What creativity could be unleashed?
Pretend that you have been charged with developing a program aimed at increasing healthy body and brain growth, and decreasing health issues
Problem: Why is non-violence so important to the tradition of civil disobedience? Explain with reference to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Marx thinks that our socio-economic system is based on estranged (or alienated) labor. What does this mean?
Explain how you would "cure" this logical fallacy "appeal to nature" by addressing what a logical and reasonable argument would look like, instead.
Problem: What is the Lebenswelt, and what is its relationship to other realms of thought?
Describe subjectivism, egoism, Utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics, and support your descriptions with references.
What is Spinoza's view of relationship between knowledge and obedience? And how is does that reflects in The Nathan the wise by Lessings ?
Problem: Select a passage from one of the Kant or Bentham readings and discuss.
What kind of being will you be able to show that you know you are? Augustine and Descartes are both helpful in combating skepticism.
Explain an argument for one view (e.g. an argument that VR is not an illusion) and then make one or two objections to this argument.
What does art mean to you? What questions are the most important for you to ask about a piece so that you can fully appreciate it?
How will you show Gandalf that you know you exist? It is important to first clarify proper definition of "knowledge." Both Plato and Descartes are helpful
Question: Explain Kaczor's argument regarding the assumption of a one-way unplugging in Thomson's violinist thought experiment.
What is substrate independence, and why might it be a reason to prefer a functionalist theory of mind over an identity theory?
Problem: Explain Thomson's distinction between just vs. unjust and decent vs. indecent.
Use Kant's categorical imperative to justify and explain what Carter's duty was towards the child in the photograph. Was Carter obligated to do more?
Problem 1: Why do people disagree about what is good and bad? Problem 2: What is more reliable: our senses, rationality or intuition?
Aristotle's definition of a "tragic hero". Explain what is the human sacrifice involved in the case of: a. Agamemnon b. Jephthah (Old Testament)
Problem: What are the benefits of risky play in early childhood? What do people need to know for risky play?
What is the difference between the 'good' life according to Socrates and the Sophists? What is the difference between defining 'good' as excellence and pleasure
What kind of knowledge do you think philosophy generate? What do you think philosophers do? According to Russell, what is the value of philosophy?
: Present an argument, with research, that the government should actively spy on a specific group of people for suspicion of specific actions.
How does everything we've pondered come back to the central dialogue taking place between Plato and Aristotle
Problem: Refers to the growing interest and demand for locations which became popular due to their appearance in films and television series.