PHIL101Q&A
Use one or more moral theories from weeks 6 and | PHIL 101
Use one or more moral theories from weeks 6 and | PHIL 101 | AMU
Use one or more moral theories from weeks 6 and 7 to justify what you believe is the right thing to do concerning some contemporary situation. Define and describe the theories you use. Describe the contemporary moral situation and why it is a moral situation. Describe how the theory provides the reasoning/justification to demonstrate your proposed solution is the best one. You have encountered various theories of knowledge and theories of being in this course, beginning with Plato/Socrates (as well as pre-Socratics like Parmenides), Descartes and the rationalists, empiricism, and Kantian constructivism. The phenomenological method as described in Week 7 can also give us tools for a theory of knowledge. Use one or more theories from epistemology and/or metaphysics to discuss what kinds of things you can know and how you can claim to know what you know. Define and describe the theory or theories that you use to make your claim. Say something about the range of possible knowledge that you can legitimately claim as knowledge. That is, does it include only knowledge of what can be sensed and whatever is physical? Or can we know abstract objects like universals? Can we have knowledge of more spiritual or esoteric realities, like the soul, God, religious doctrines, etc.? Explain the reasons that support your viewpoint by providing arguments that are in dialogue with relevant thinkers discussed in our course. Use one or more theories from weeks 3-5 and 8 to demonstrate humans have a purpose. Define and describe the theory or theories you use to make your claim. Keep in mind that the goal is to argue humans have a purpose. If you do not think we have one, consider another option. Be sure your argument includes like-minded philosophers on the type of purpose you claim humans have.
Consider the debate between Rationalism and Empiricism What are the | PHIL 101 | AMU
Consider the debate between Rationalism and Empiricism. What are the major differences between these two traditions in their approach to the theory of knowledge and metaphysics? What are the differences in their methods and attitudes to doing philosophy? Which tradition is more convincing/more useful as an approach to seeking answers to philosophical questions and to seeking meaning in life? Why? Create 8-10 ppt slides that discussed the question above