Category: Philosophy

What ideas are needed to do moral analysis? In your paper, quote the works that we have read by Rawls and two other works that we read this semester.

What ideas are needed to do moral analysis?

Argue an answer to the following question: what ideas are needed to do moral analysis? In your paper, quote the works that we have read by Rawls and two other works that we read this semester.

Determine the truth values of the following symbolized statements. Let A, B, and C be true and X, Y, and Z be false. Circle your answer.

Symbolic logic

Determine the truth values of the following symbolized statements. Let A, B, and C be true and X, Y, and Z be false. Circle your answer.
1. A● X ●
2. B ∼Y
3. X¡∼Y
4. ∼C ¡ Z
5. B⊃∼Z
6. Y⊃∼A
7. ∼X⊃Z
8. BKY
9. ∼CKZ
10. ∼(A ∼Z)
11. ∼B¡●(Y⊃A)
12. A⊃∼(Z¡∼Y)
13.(A Y)¡(∼Z C) ●
14. ∼(X¡∼B) (∼Y¡A) ●
●●
15. (Y⊃C) ∼(B⊃∼X)

IV. When possible, determine the truth values of the following symbolized state- ments. Let A and B be true, Y and Z false. P and Q have unknown truth values. If the truth value of the statement cannot be determined, write “undetermined.”
1. A¡P
2. Q¡Z
3. Q● Y
4. Q● A
5. P⊃B
6. Z⊃Q
7. A⊃P
8. PK∼P
9. (P⊃A)⊃Z
10. (P⊃A)K(Q⊃B)

Determine the truth values of the following symbolized statements. Let A, B, and C be true and X, Y, and Z be false. Circle your answer.
1. A● X ●
2. B ∼Y
3. X¡∼Y
4. ∼C ¡ Z
5. B⊃∼Z
6. Y⊃∼A
7. ∼X⊃Z
8. BKY
9. ∼CKZ
10. ∼(A ∼Z)
11. ∼B¡●(Y⊃A)
12. A⊃∼(Z¡∼Y)
13.(A Y)¡(∼Z C) ●
14. ∼(X¡∼B) (∼Y¡A) ●
●●
15. (Y⊃C) ∼(B⊃∼X)

What is it about Daoism that would encourage us to understand this religion as a way of thinking about the natural world? What is important about the fact that Daoism is based on such a foundation?

Writing Assignment #2

Why are things done in a particular way? What is the real difference between things? “Why” is far more important than “What” in a philosophy course.

In the first paragraph, you should clearly explain how we can think of Daoism as a philosophy of nature. What is it about Daoism that would encourage us to understand this religion as a way of thinking about the natural world? What is important about the fact that Daoism is based on such a foundation?

In the second paragraph, you should clearly explain how we can view Daoism as a religion. What aspects of this “philosophy” are particularly religious in nature? What are the religious foundations of Daoism, and what are the basic teachings that build upon that foundation?

In the third paragraph, you will explain how Daoism might be thought of as a system of ritual practices. This is related to it being a religion—but different. Removing the specifically “religious” aspects, how might someone practice the ritual of Daoism, separate from its religious implications?

What is the importance of ritual, when viewed in this way?

In your final paragraph, you will expand these ideas to other religious traditions (perhaps your own). All religions have different aspects—they are ways of thinking about the world, they are religious systems, they are sets of ritual practice. Explain how seeing these distinctions in Daoism should impact our thinking about religion in general.

The goal is to explain the ideas, in your own words, as you would explain it to someone who knows nothing about Daoism. How would you explain to a friend why these different aspects of “religion” are important?

Why do we not kill ourselves? And, on the other hand, as he explains a bit further into the reading, he wants to know: What are the consequences of absurdity for human existence?

Reflection Paper 5

 Camus is concerned with the question:

Why do we not kill ourselves? And, on the other hand, as he explains a bit further into the reading, he wants to know: What are the consequences of absurdity for human existence?

What is this problem of philosophy really about? What are thinkers trying to deal with within this issue? What’s at stake with this issue? What can we say we know or don’t know?

Final Paper
You should be able to answer questions such as the following:

What is this problem of philosophy really about? What are thinkers trying to deal with within this issue? What’s at stake with this issue? What can we say we know or don’t know?

Part Two: 1 page

Discuss why you chose the content you did and what about it drew you in and kept your interest. What did you learn about it that influenced you in some way? What value does it add to your understanding and learning about your life and about the value of philosophy?

 

Explain the importance of the passage and how it fits and operates within the larger text.

Close Reading

Select a passage (phrase or paragraph) in a text. The passage must be at the top of the page.

Explain what the passage means by relating it to the main of the text.

Detail the argument that supports the selected passage.

Explain the importance of the passage and how it fits and operates within the larger text.

Define any key concept of ideas that are either in the passage or needed to explain the passage.

Provide an analysis of the passage.

Explain whether you agree with Beauvoir about ethics, and how the primary obligation each of us has is to advance the cause of every person’s freedom. If she’s wrong, what makes her wrong? But if she’s right, what’s one concrete step you could take in the direction of freedom as she understands it?

Week 4 Day 3

Explain whether you agree with Beauvoir about ethics, and how the primary obligation each of us has is to advance the cause of every person’s freedom. If she’s wrong, what makes her wrong? But if she’s right, what’s one concrete step you could take in the direction of freedom as she understands it?