hi, reading assaignment and answer questios.

Phisiology, reading assaignment, 6 chapter tottal, each chapter has 9 question that has to be answered.

college level for PHI2010

Chapter 6

After reading chapter 6 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

1)

 

     Compare and contrast the views of Dualism, Materialism, and Idealism.

2)      Explain and evaluate Rene Descartes’ views on knowledge.

3)      Explain and evaluate Rene Descartes’ evil demon conjecture.

4)      Explain and evaluate the views of Oliva Sabuco de Nantes on the connection between the mind and the body.

5)      Explain and evaluate Benedictus de Spinoza’s view the “God is all” (or everything).

6)      Explain and evaluate George Berkeley’s view that “to be, is to be perceived”.

7)      Explain the evaluate John Locke’s theory of representative realism.

8)      Explain and evaluate Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s view of monads.

9) Please compare and contrast the views of Thomas Hobbes and George Berkeley on Substance.

Chapter 7

After reading chapter 7 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.

 

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

1)      Evaluate David Hume’s claims about the self.

2)      Explain and evaluate David Hume’s claims about cause and effect.

3)      A) Explain and evaluate Immanuel Kant’s” Copernican revolution in philosophy”. B) How does he resolve the problems presented by Hume?

4)      Explain the distinction between the phenomena and the noumena.

5)      Explain what Georg Hegel means by “infinite or absolute consciousness.

6)      Explain and evaluate Arthur Schopenhauer’s view that people are rarely rational in their actions, is he correct?

7)      If David Hume’s arguments are correct, then what the implications for science and knowledge in general?

8)      What does it truly mean to exist, independent of anyone’s ideas or perceptions?

 9) Please compare and contrast the views of David Hume and Immanuel Kant on the principle of causality.

Chapter 13

After reading chapter 13 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

1)      Explain and evaluate the argument of St. Anselm for God’s existence.

2)      Explain and evaluate Guanilo’s objection to the ontological argument.

3)      Summarize St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways.

4)      Can we verify the religious or mystical experiences of others?

5)      Leibniz claims that this is the “best of all possible worlds”. A) Why does he say this? B) Do you agree with his assertion?

6)      Explain and evaluate Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that “God is dead!”

7)      Compare, contrast and evaluate the views of John Morris (or Phillip Johnson) and Richard Dawkins regarding evolution and God’s existence.

8)      Explain how it is possible that your religious views are right and yet everyone else’s ( expect those who believe as you) are wrong.

9) If God is all powerful, all knowing and all good, why does he/she allow evil to pervade the world? Why is the world filled with so much misery and suffering?

 

Chapter 15

After reading chapter 15 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

1)      Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma, samsara, and Nirvana.

2)      Explain and evaluate the Hindu ideas of Brahman, atman and reality.

3)      Explain the Buddha’s four noble truths. Is he correct in his view?

4)      Explain and evaluate the “Eight Fold Path”. Is this a reasonable philosophy for life?

5)      Explain the connection or relationship between Tao, Yin, and Yang.

6)      Explain and evaluate Lao Tzu’s notion of effortless non-striving.

7)      Explain and evaluate Confucius’s principle of Mean.

8)      Explain and evaluate the views of Murasaki Shikibu and the role and status of women.

9) What are some of the similarities between Buddhism and

Hinduism? 

Chapter 8

After reading chapter 8 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.   

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.
 

1)      What does Sartre mean by saying that we are condemned to be free?

2)      Explain the myth of Sisyphus. Is this situation an accurate depiction of human life?

3)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Jacques Derrida.

4)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Jurgen Habermas.

5)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of martin Heideger.

6)      Compare and contrast the views of Sartre and Kant on Ethics.

7)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Albert Camus.

8)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Soren Kierkegaard.

9) What is being, and are we an example of it?

Chapter 9

After reading chapter 9 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.   

Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

 

1)      Explain the logical positivist’ reasons for claiming that all metaphysics is meaningless.

2)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of john Dewey’s instrumentalism.

3)      Explain and evaluate William James’ notion that you can “will yourself to believe and idea”.

4)      Explain and evaluate the connections between language and science as discussed by Frege and Russell.

5)      Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

6)      Explain and evaluate the views of Saul Kripke.

7)      Explain the notion of ontology and presented in the textbook.

8)      Explain and evaluate the main views of philosophy of mind as discussed in the textbook.

9) Compare and contrast views of William James and C.S. Peirce.