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PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism
PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights
PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide
PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism
PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science
PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper (Death Penalty)
PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God’s Existence
PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test
PHI 200 Week 4 Quiz
PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy
PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society
PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper Death Penalty
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PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism
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PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism
Our text discusses the challenge relativism presents to various ethical and religious viewpoints. Consider a specific moral question which might make it difficult to accept the relativist’s response. State the moral issue involved, and provide an explanation as to why you think a relativist might have problem giving a justified response to it.
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PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights
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PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights
Do human beings have any obligations to other animals, in terms of their treatment? If it is wrong to treat animals cruelly, why is it not wrong to eat them? Explain if, and how, you think humans can find a balance between treating animals ethically while also raising them for food and for other reasons, such as the testing of pharmaceuticals.
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PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide
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PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide
Susan Wolf, in writing about her own father’s death, confronts the problems that arise at the end of life, and challenges her to consider her views on assisted suicide.
Putting yourself in Wolf’s place, how would you respond to this tragic and difficult issue? In three pages (excluding the title and reference pages), state your own response, arguing for why you think that response is the best available choice. In addition, indicate to what extent you agree with Wolf, and where you disagree with her.
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PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism
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Leading Organizational Change. As this week’s material points out, we are living in
PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism
Can a person be skeptical about everything, or are there limits? Is it possible to doubt everything, or almost everything? Are there beliefs you possess that cannot be challenged or shown to be false? How might the skeptic respond to your claim that such a belief cannot be doubted? Identify one such specific belief and present your response to the skeptic. (If you don’t have such a belief, explain how one could live while not accepting any claim as true.)
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PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science
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PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science
After watching the video, explain what the basic issue is about teaching creationism (or Intelligent Design) in public school science classes. Indicate how you would resolve this dispute. Be sure to support your answer. Respond and reply to your fellow students.
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PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper (Death Penalty)
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PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper
For this rough draft, you must identify a specific philosophical issue having to do with ethics, epistemology, or religion. You will need to find a topic over which there is a useful debate, in order to present both sides of the debate. Here, you will not need to indicate what your own position is, relative to the issue; you will be doing that, however, in the final version of the paper.
To receive full credit for this paper, you must do the following in three pages:
Identify the specific issue
Make clear one basic dispute over the issue you identify
Give a brief outline of the two sides of the debate
Provide at least one good source for each side of the debate (for the final version, you will need a minimum of five sources, at least two for each side).
Topics to Choose From:
Ethics
The death penalty
Assisted suicide
Reinstating the military draft
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PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God’s Existence
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PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God’s Existence
After reading about the various proofs of the existence of God, identify which of these arguments seems to be the best, and explain why you think so. Complete your response by reflecting on why philosophers have sought for thousands of years to provide such proofs, and whether it is necessary to do so.
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PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test
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PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test
If you were asked to defeat the computer in the Turing Test (described in our book), what types of questions would you ask it? Explain why you think these questions would be the type to “reveal” the computer to be a computer? Why would these responses have to be given by a human being? (If you don’t think there are such questions, you will need to explain what, if anything, shows that human beings are unique, and how it shows that.)
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PHI 200 Week 4 Quiz
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1. Question : The First Cause argument for the existence of God assumes that
2. Question : The view that certain beliefs must be held solely on the basis of faith is called
3. Question : The Ontological Proof of the Existence of God claims that God exists because
4. Question : To adopt the Principle of Charity is to
5. Question : Evolutionary theory responds to which argument for the existence of God, by showing that complexity can arise from natural causes?
6. Question : John Searle tried to show that there was more to thinking than merely manipulating symbols with his
7. Question : Strong determinism denies that human beings have
8. Question : An essential property of God, according to the Ontological Argument, is
9. Question : The Argument from Design clams that
10. Question : The problem of evil suggests that which of the following cannot be true?
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PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy
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PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy
After reflecting on what you have read about and thought about in our course, select one topic that you thought was interesting, challenging, difficult, aggravating, new, or provocative. Discuss why you chose this particular topic, what you have learned about it and how it made you think a bit differently both about the issues this topic raises and about the value of philosophy.
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PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society
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PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society
After watching the video, “The Relationship of Philosophy to Other Fields,” reflect on the relationship of philosophy to your life, in terms of your future education and career goals. What value does philosophy have? How can people benefit from thinking more philosophically? What significance does thinking and reasoning critically play in society, and in human flourishing?
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PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper Death Penalty
PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper
Three important sub-disciplines of philosophy are addressed in this course; ethics, epistemology, and religion. For this paper you will develop an argument that includes your own view on one specific topic relating to one of these sub-disciplines. A list of topics to choose from is listed below. It is recommended that you choose a topic to write on that you have already encountered, or that you have thought about previously. (One way of thinking about this is to think of an issue that worries you, interests you, or enrages you.)
For instance, if you choose to write about whether children should be spanked (this is only an example), you would present the argument for spanking and against spanking; you would then state your position relative to this issue and defend your own view. You would also utilize the theories that we saw in the ethics chapter to provide support for your position, and draw on those theories to clarify the debate itself.
You may choose a topic from ethics, epistemology, or religion, but you will need to make sure you do the following for whatever topic you choose:
Identify the specific issue
Make clear one basic dispute over this issue
Clarify the arguments on both sides of the issue
State which side of the issue you find to be better defended
Explain why you find that side of the debate superior
State your own view, and defend it with an argument
Provide at least two references for each side of the debate
In order to write a strong paper, you will need to clearly and specifically present both sides of the debate using at least five (5) academic resources in addition to the course text.
