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explain why clarity of consciousness varies between people, and how consciousness can be made clearer and more expanded
What is Heidegger's phenomenology of technology about? What is the ready-to-hand, embodied coping, grip-solicit, hodological map, equipmentality, etc.
How do we make "meaning" in our lives? What does it mean to live, as some people would say, "with purpose"?
Prompt: "The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.
Emma works for a pharmaceutical company and discovers that a new drug, which is about to be released, has serious side effects that were not disclosed in clinic
Problem: What are "technologies of quiescence"? Group of answer choices of quietness, stillness, inactivity, or dormancy; of making quiet
Question: Martha is terminated from her job when her drug test comes back positive for Marijuana.
Consider the early Greek concept of fate (p. 60), the play "Oedipus the King" (p. 108), and the Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism
Is prevention of disease always the best outcome? During COVID lockdowns, people were required to sacrifice many social goods to prevent infections
Discuss what Locke meant by the concept of tabula rasa. How might this apply to our current understanding of learning and behavior
Discuss one specific example of the dehumanizing effects of modernism that Romantics like Rousseau or Wollstonecraft would be concerned
One problem with the utilitarian approach is that it's tough to measure benefits like happiness or well-being because they aren't tangible.
How do you feel about the principles of utilitarianism? Do you think it is a viable moral theory? Why? If you were to practice utilitarianism,
Who said it is "better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied"?
Many cities ban smoking or vaping in indoor public places. consider the ethics of one of the laws or regulations listed above
After reviewing the course materials, explain this: Is freedom necessary? What type of freedom is more important to you? How much of freedom your culture allows
Problem: Which of the following phrases best describes the process of analysis?
Problem: In Book XIX Augustine writes of peace which he calls the "law of nature." What does he mean by this?
Problem: How might technological artifacts come to embody a specific set of values?
Question: How might seemingly rational technology result in irrational consequences?
Problem: What does the phrase "not selling at both sides of the road" mean, and what is it a reference for?
Finally, describe the extent to which the epistemological and ontological assumptions of your chosen theory align with the philosophical orientation
A description that applies the ideas of a philosopher covered in this course to the contemporary world. You must use both Utilitarianism and Kantian Deontology
Problem: Which of the following problem(s) with utilitarianism do the authors identify?
Problem: The authors conclude by endorsing which of the ethical systems discussed in the chapter?