Category: Philosophy

For the final weekly assignment you get to design the unit 13 lecture. Begin by reading the two essays assigned for this unit. Consider their place in the broader context of the class.
Create a power point presentation that first summarizes this week’s readings. Explain the material this wiek as if you were teaching the last week’s material. You will use written words rather than pictures to convey the meaning of the material. Once you have a nice summary in place consider how this week’s material unifies everything we’ve learned. Try to summarize the class by mentioning other ideas that we’ve learned over the weeks.
Aim for at least 10 slides (title slide included) however you may go as far over that as you need. Please don’t bog down your presentation with visuals and bullet points. Think of this as a presentation/paper but one where you get to highlight whatever you find most significant. What you write down on your slides should be substantial like an essay. l
Your lecture should show good understanding of the reading and synthesize information together. Spend roughly the first 80% explaining/summarizing the reading from this unit. Then, think of the remaining part as the concluding thought for the class. In the last 20% think about the ideas and concepts that meant the most to you (not unit 1). Try to integrate those things with the content from the unit 13 readings. End your essay with a “most important point” that brings everything together. 

Are We a Society of Sleepwalkers?
Write a two-paragraph journal entry (200 words) responding to the question below. Your entry should share your philosophical perspective and also demonstrate your understanding of course concepts.
QUESTION: Chaffee writes: “Socrates warned the citizens of Athens against ‘sleepwalking through life.’ Do you think citizens of our culture run a similar risk of ‘rushing through life’ without taking the time to reflect deeply on the meaning of life and the state of their souls?” (page 61)

Every student in Phil. class is required to write a philosophy paper, minimum 1000 word count. The title page must include your total word count for your entire paper. This includes the entire content of your paper, from title page to cited source page.  It is to be double spaced, 12 font Times New Roman, MLA format, minimum two sources. The book and the notes can be used as sources, also academic journals, websites etc. Title page and works cited page required.
Grading Rubrics: You will be graded on the following: paper outline, format, and bibliographical entries; which is your ability to illustrate an understanding of the topics and themes chosen for study, including explanation of issues, and lastly, the conclusions and outcomes which speak of student’s logical and reflective insights from the data and information that you have studied All quoted and gleaned material must be encased in quotations or if over 4 sentences must be indented.  Your quoted material must also be referenced to your citation page. Otherwise it will be considered plagiarized material.  DO NOT make this mistake. Plagirism Free!
Topic Selection: Explain and summarize Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Do you think it is a valid ethical system? Why or Why not?

Link to detailed video instructions:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnEpA0wR1Hk&list=PLquKUQP42xn-Vw3nwrRWKzmmXZrhCr3HS&index=12&t=54s
4 page, 12p, Timens New Roman. double spaced, aligned left. Will be sent through Turnitin. A rubric is attatched.  2 sourses in footnotes.

Description:  Every student in Phil. class is required to write a philosophy paper, minimum 1000 word count. The title page must include your total word count for your entire paper. This includes the entire content of your paper, from title page to cited source page.  It is to be double spaced, 12 font Times New Roman, MLA format, minimum two sources. The book and the notes can be used as sources, also academic journals, websites etc. Title page and works cited page required.
Grading Rubrics: You will be graded on the following: paper outline, format, and bibliographical entries; which is your ability to illustrate an understanding of the topics and themes chosen for study, including explanation of issues, and lastly, the conclusions and outcomes which speak of student’s logical and reflective insights from the data and information that you have studied. All quoted and gleaned material must be encased in quotations or if over 4 sentences must be indented.  Your quoted material must also be referenced to your citation page. Otherwise it will be considered plagiarized material. 
Topic Selection: Explain and summarize Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Do you think it is a valid ethical system? Why or why not?

this assignment allows you to practice presenting arguments about an issue in a very particular style to acknowledge a hostile audience.

Description:  Every student in Phil. class is required to write a philosophy paper, minimum 1000 word count. The title page must include your total word count for your entire paper. This includes the entire content of your paper, from title page to cited source page.  It is to be double spaced, 12 font Times New Roman, MLA format, minimum two sources. The book and the notes can be used as sources, also academic journals, websites etc. Title page and works cited page required. Grading Rubrics: You will be graded on the following: paper outline, format, and bibliographical entries; which is your ability to illustrate an understanding of the topics and themes chosen for study, including explanation of issues, and lastly, the conclusions and outcomes which speak of student’s logical and reflective insights from the data and information that you have studied.  All quoted and gleaned material must be encased in quotations or if over 4 sentences must be indented.  Your quoted material must also be referenced to your citation page. Otherwise it will be considered plagiarized material. 
Topic Selection: Explain and summarize Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Do you think it is a valid ethical system? Why or why not?

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the arguments of Descartes and Hume on the existence of God. 
Hume argues there is no way to prove abstract ideas or final causes, and that, “Whenever any object is presented to the memory or senses, it immediately, by the force of custom, carries the imagination to conceive that object, which is usually conjoined to it; and this connection is attended with a feeling or sentiment, different from the loose reveries of the fancy.” (V, II, p. 31-37). In other words, real causes (or abstract ideas) are simply a fiction, “The mind has but a slender hold of them.” (II, p. 13).   
Descartes argued that he exists, he knows this for certain, but only God could be the cause of his existence. Descartes argued that he could not possibly have the idea of God, unless God had formal and eminent reality – the cause of his existence, his clear and distinct ideas. With Descartes, there appears to be a permanent self that has continuity over time. The permanent self is necessary for certainty – to go beyond that which is externally perceived to that which has a logical relation or representation of the phenomenal world.  
Assignment question: 
What do you think is the difference between Hume’s and Descartes’s arguments – what is the significance? 
Create your assignment on a separate Word Document (save your document) and then upload your Word Document to the Turnitin Assignment submission. If you submit your paper prior to the due date and have forgotten something, you can resubmit, and I will grade the latest submission. Only one submission is permitted after the due date.  
Use APA formatting with this paper by providing a title page and reference page, double-spaced, and 12-font. The title page and reference page do not count for the page number requirement. You paper should be at least two full pages of writing.  
Use material from the text to support your ideas with in-text citations and provide a Reference page listing the textbook. Only looking for 4-6 citations. Sources:
Cress, D. (1998). Rene′ Descartes: Discourse on method and meditations on first philosophy (4th ed). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co. 
Steinberg, E. (1993). David Hume: An enquiry concerning human understanding; with a letter from a gentleman to his friend in Edinburgh; and Hume’s abstract of a treatise of human nature (2nd ed). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co. 

Option #3: Contextualizing Art 
Select one piece of art from the assigned Gateway into the Visual Arts Resource or the online museums listed in that resource you would like to interpret. Include an image of the piece of art at the top of your discussion post. Also be sure to include the name of the artist and the name of the piece. 
Based on the information in Required Resource #4, decide whether you would like to do a historical, social, personal, political or scientific contextualization for this piece. Doing some research in reliable sources, find some information to report in order to do the kind of contextualization you have chosen.  
Then write 3-4 paragraphs in which you do the following:  
Identify the piece of art and which kind of contextualization you will do.  
Briefly describe three significant pieces of information you discovered in your research that contextualizes the piece of art you chose.  
Describe two or three aspects of the art that you think are examples of how the historical, social, personal, political or scientific context appears visually and explain why.  
Make a general statement about why you think it is, or is not important to consider the context of this piece of art. 
Make sure to cite any quotes or paraphrases in MLA style.  

Instructions:
Please write a 2-3 page essay answering all parts of the following question.  Feel free to use material and ideas from throughout Chapter 2. However, if you take any material directly from the chapter, or any other outside sources, then please remember to properly cite that material.  The use of any outside material without citation will be considered plagiarism and will result in a 0 for the assignment.  The use of any material generated by Artificial Intelligence is not allowed.  Any use of Artificial Intelligence will result in a 0 for the assignment.
Prompt:
Explain the traditional western view of the enduring self as well as one challenge to this view presented in Chapter 2.  How do philosophers like Plato, Descartes, or Locke explain and defend the traditional view?  How do philosophers like Sartre or Hume challenge this view? Which view do you find more compelling and why?