Philosophy, Sex, Race, and Culture 1. Do you believe that men and women think differently? How doyou know? If so, […]
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Should a president of the United States be impeached if his or her subordinates break the law?
1. In what kind of society would you prefer to live? A large urbansociety; a small rural society; some safe […]
What considerations do you use to tell whether someone’s action is selfish? Is selfishness always wrong? Sometimes wrong? When? Be specific.
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Attack on Morality 1. What is your conception of the good life? What goals orprinciples are […]
Do you believe that a morally good person will, at least in normal circumstances, also be assured of being a happy person? Why or why not?
Morally good person 1. We sometimes say that to be a good person, one must be “true tooneself.” Do you […]
What counts as external compulsion, in your opinion? Can compulsions be internal as well? Give some examples, and explain how it is that they interfere with our freedom.
1. Define freedom in your own terms, specifically outlining thoseaspects of yourself that you consider the basis of your ownconception […]
Explain who you are to a visitor from another planet.
Pharmacology 1. Describe yourself as a character in a novel. Describe the gestures, postures, revealing habits, characteristic word phrases you […]
Suppose another friend, in a provocative mood, were to ask you how you know that you are not dreaming right at this moment. What can you say? How would you prove to yourself that this is not true?
Scientific answer 1. Some of the information you have been given in your courses inschool is, inevitably, not true. How […]
Describe the Form of some ordinary objects around you, in accordance with Plato’s theory.
Pre-Socratic philosophers1. Choose one of the elements defended by the pre-Socraticphilosophers (water, fire, numbers, and so on) and argue for […]
What would convince you that God does exist? If you do believe in God, what would convince you that God does not exist?
General description of God 1. Give a general description of God, noting those characteristicswithout which you would not be willing […]
If you had only a few minutes to live, what would you do with them? What if you had only a few days? Twenty years?
Philosophical QuestionsOpening Questions1. Is there anything you would willingly die for? What?2. If you had only a few minutes to […]
