ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1. What is it to live a distinctively "human" life? In answering this question you should draw on Heidegger's work. Do you believe that he was right?
2. How was Heidegger's approach to ontology influenced by the work of Aristotle?
3. Do you believe that a person' own life can be divorced from his or her philosophical work? Argue for your answer, drawing as you do on the lives and works of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger.
4. Why did Wittgenstein believe that he had solved all the problems of philosophy, and why did he change his mind?
5. Who are the "they", and what are "they" contrasted with? Do you believe that there is anything objectionable to being one of "them"?
6. How is Heidegger's view of death similar to, and different from, that of Epicurus?
7. What is Heidegger's attitude towards technology? Do you share it? Why, or why not?
8. What are the main differences between analytic and Continental philosophy? Do they share any characteristics? If so, what? If not, why do you think this is?