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Are there any of these you find especially helpful to your own understanding of beauty? Are there any you find particularly unhelpful or confusing?
What are the social attitudes toward suicide that Callahan mentions? Do you think these attitudes are appropriate?
Describe a few proposed approaches to global warming that Lomborg believes are problematic and explain why he thinks they're problematic.
How does this question relate to the Divine Command Theory of morality? What are the philosophical implications associated with each option here?
What would an emotivist say about your positions and judgments? What role does subjectivity play here in determining what is ethical?
In an essay of about 400 words, explain Ronald Reagan uses Aristotelian means of persuasion to achieve his purpose in his Speech Tear Down this Wall.
Draw or diagram the configuration of train tracks, sidings and forks that fits the description of Lackey's second version of the Trolley Case.
Write 6 to 8 pages essay written in Chicago Manuel of Style. The essay instructions are posted below. Are you able to help?
Explain the four truth tests and illustrate each with an example of a belief that would be true by its standards.
What are the arguments for using the popular vote instead of the Electoral College to elect presidents?
To what extent should economic considerations play a part in our treatment of nature and the environment?
write 2 to 3 pages paper comparing/contrasting pantheism and new age thought. What are the central assumptions for each worldview?
Now that you have studied political philosophy, explain what is the best type of government for your country.
What is the relation between ethics and religion? Articulate, explain, and evaluate in each case an approach that makes use of divine command ethics.
Discuss how the concept of jihad as presented in Sheikh's article relates to your readings in The Qur'an. Cite from Sheikh and The Qur'an.
Explicate the key points of Egoism. Explicate the key points of Utilitarianism. Explicate the key points of Deontology. Explicate key points of Virtue Ethics.
Analyze any one of the two short speeches below from the point of view of their appeals, organization, and style.
What is the social contract? What is the difference between J.J. Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes on social contract?
Examine key reasons why people might seem attracted to pseudoscience-type claims. Determine two ways in which material discussed has changed your own thinking.
Why is deterrence not a decisive factor in the debate about the morality of the death penalty according to van den Haag? Explain your answers.
What is your understanding of terrorism now? What do you see as the ethically proper response to acts of terror?
Do you relate more to the abolitionist or the retentionist position? What do you see as the two strongest supporting arguments for your position, and why?
What sort of relevance does this teaching have for other worldviews? What does this teaching reveal about Jesus?
How can we treat others as an end in themselves according to O'Neill? In what ways are human beings limited by their finitude?
Why does Macedo claim that cosmopolitan distributive justice makes no sense? Do you agree or disagree with him on this question?