Category: Philosophy

 What assumptions and resources can you use to advance your argument?What evidence or additional research supports the claim you are making in your argument?

Milestone 2

Does the argument contain or avoid bias? How?

Provide specific examples to support your explanation.

Discuss the credibility of the overall argument and answer the following:

Were the resources upon which the argument is built credible? Why or why not?

Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways? How?

Construct an alternative argument to that of your selected article.

What are the premises and conclusion of your argument?

What evidence or additional research supports the claim you are making in your argument?

Explain the logic and reasoning you are planning to use to advance your argument.

What assumptions and resources can you use to advance your argument?

Identify any weaknesses in your argument that would require additional research or support.

Explain how your previously identified personal experience with the topic may create emotional influences, values or bias.

Explain how the argument contains or avoids bias.Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways?

Discussion Post

Explain how the argument contains or avoids bias.

Provide specific examples to support your explanation.

What assumptions does it make?

Discuss the credibility of the overall argument.

Were the resources the argument was built upon credible?

Does the credibility support or undermine the article’s claims in any important ways?

Explain the answer that Marxism or Sartre’s existentialism would give.explain the philosophical problem(s) raised by the question posed (e.g., by stating a problem issue, an implication, condition, contradiction, etc.).

How do key modern philosophers like Sartre and Marx understand the question? What do you think of them?

Is it by being the author of my identity that freedom is possible for me?

Explain the answer that Marxism or Sartre’s existentialism would give.explain the philosophical problem(s) raised by the question posed (e.g., by stating a problem issue, an implication, condition, contradiction, etc.).

What does it mean to think philosophically? How can thinking philosophically help me in my own life?What is the good life and how ought  to live it?

Philosophical Reflection Essay
Consider the three following questions:

What is knowledge?

What is reality made of?

What is the good life and how ought  to live it?

Identify which of the above questions is associated with each branch of philosophy.

Explain how Socrates would answer the question “What is knowledge?” or how Epictetus would answer the question “What is the good life?”

What does it mean to think philosophically? How can thinking philosophically help me in my own life?

What impact do the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers have on my own views and opinions?

Then, based on these reflections, you should give your own answer to whichever of the three questions from Part I you chose to focus on, using cited examples from the course to support your answer. (“What is knowledge?”; “What is reality?”; “What is the good life?”)

Part II of this assignment should be approximately 1-2 pages (300-600 words). You should write at least one paragraph for each of the three prompts listed above.

“What is the good life and how ought to live it?” while not saying much about knowledge or reality. Plato and Aristotle wrote a great deal about all three questions.

What do your responses reveal about the relation between happiness and pleasure (i.e., are they the same or different and why)?

Discussion Board 5: Happiness and Pleasure

Imagine there is a simulation machine that is seamlessly capable of simulating any type of existence you would want to live for however long a period of time you would want to experience it.

Explain (a) the extent to which you think you could be happy in such a simulation and (b) whether or not you would choose to live in such a simulation.

What do your responses reveal about the relation between happiness and pleasure (i.e., are they the same or different and why)?

What good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? do we really believe that the training which they give is “liberal” for the young men of Rome, who used to be taught by our ancestors to stand straight and hurl a spear, to wield a pike, to guide a horse, and to handle weapons?

Reflective essay on course and recurring themes of power and education

For what good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? do we really believe that the training which they give is “liberal” for the young men of Rome, who used to be taught by our ancestors to stand straight and hurl a spear, to wield a pike, to guide a horse, and to handle weapons?

Explore the ways in which your experiences this term have influenced your understanding of the world. How did engaging with (some or all of) the following academic

Experiences help you grow:

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Listening

Discussion/Sharing

Writing/Reflecting

 

What Philosophical Study in Ethics Misses Out on Morality?How is Ethics Influences My Relationship with People and its Benefit to my Career.

Week One: Discussion 2: Critiquing Approaches to Ethical Reasoning

What Philosophical Study in Ethics Misses Out on Morality?How is Ethics Influences My Relationship with People and its Benefit to my Career.

How Ethics Changes my Meaning of Life and whether philosophy plays a part in Teaching Ethics

Examine Achille Mbembe’s description of “ultimate expressions of sovereignty” in late modern capitalism as it relates to Black women. How do Black women exercise sovereignty in late modern capitalism? How does Necropower differ from sovereignty understood as the exercise of reason and therefore the exercise of one’s freedom as well?

Necropolitics and Black Women

Examine Achille Mbembe’s description of “ultimate expressions of sovereignty” in late modern capitalism as it relates to Black women. How do Black women exercise sovereignty in late modern capitalism? How does Necropower differ from sovereignty understood as the exercise of reason and therefore the exercise of one’s freedom as well?