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Philosophy Living Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau
PHIL 1050 Ethics, Knowledge and Reality PAPER ASSIGNMENT III
PURPOSE: Over the past few weeks, we have read Chapter 4 from Robert Solomon’s The Big Questions and Chapter
2 from Kellenberger’s book on the philosophy of religion. The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to closely engage with some of the thinkers and ideas that we have covered, to hone your skills in summarizing and responding to philosophical arguments, to meaningfully juxtapose thinkers and ideas, and to articulate your own views about the questions raised in the material. Through this paper, you should come to a clearer understanding of the material and of your own views.
Philosophy Living Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau
Choose ONE of the following options to use as the prompt for your essay:
OPTION 1: REALITY & METAPHYSICS
To prepare to write the essay: Review Solomon’s quiz at the beginning of Chapter and the arguments put forward by various philosophers in the chapter. Then review Question 3 in the Closing Questions at the end of the chapter. Use the checklist of questions to review the chapter; the questions here will help you get clearer in your own mind about your own position on some of the ideas raised in this chapter.
Next: Choose two thinkers from the list on the right who are discussed in the chapter.
For example, you might choose two of the ancient Greek (pre-Socratic) thinkers such as Heraclitus and Democritus; alternatively, you might choose one of the ancient philosophers such as Aristotle and pair him with Hegel; or you might want to put two of the modern thinkers into conversation with each other, such as Spinoza and Leibniz.
Put some thought into the pairing, because it will determine what sorts of ideas you engage in your paper.
Philosophy Living Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau Prompt
Write an essay in which you engage and juxtapose the views of the two thinkers and articulate your own ideas in response. Your essay should make clear what philosophical question each thinker was addressing, the points of overlap and differences between their views, and suggest possible implications of their views. It should convey your own ideas clearly, using the relevant philosophical vocabulary you have learned this semester.
OPTION 2: PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
To prepare to write the essay: Review the chapter from Kellenberger’s Introduction to Philosophy of Religion on Proofs for the Existence of God, including the questions at the end of the chapter (on page 53). You will also want to look closely at the Keynote presentations used in class since they will include some additional details about the thinkers and arguments and some excerpts from the primary texts in which the arguments appeared.
Next: Choose two of the arguments to focus upon in your essay e.g. 1) the ontological argument, 2) the cosmological argument, and/or 3) the teleological argument (aka the design argument).
Prompt: Write an essay in which you engage and juxtapose the two arguments and articulate your own ideas in response. Your essay should make clear what type of argument each is and summarize some of the criticisms that have been put forward. Finally, it should convey your own ideas clearly, using the relevant philosophical vocabulary you have learned this semester.
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