philosophy

This essay is based on the video “Human Morality” by Joshua Greene. Please answer the assignment question after watching the video.

After completing reading assignments, and participating in class discussion, write a response to the prompt below. Support your position with examples, and a logical argument. Prompt: Define “Fate” and “Free Will.” Which guides humans through life, or is it neither? Why? (Defend only one position, not a combination.) 600-800 words.

Discussion Write 100 words for each discussion topic. 1.Introduction to Philosophy Discussion. Looking over the initial material on the definitions of philosophy in topic one of the course, which definition (Aristotle, Novalis, Wittgenstein) would you say gives you the best feel for philosophy? What is it about the definition that interests you? what other questions do you have regarding the meaning of philosophy? what potential problems do you see with any of the particular definitions? 2. Euthyphro Discussion In the Euthyphro Socrates insists on the importance of definition. If one doesn’t know a things definition then one can’t know a thing. This requirement has led to the charge of the Socratic fallacy; one can use word properly (be a competent language user) without actually knowing the definition of a word. This issue is still a converted point in the literature. However, putting aside whether Socrates is committed to this fallacy given the events related in the Euthyphro and the Apology is Socrates correct to place such an emphasis on the definition of words? do these definitions have any practical relevance? explain using examples from the dialogues and or your own experience. 3. Apology_Discussion At Apology (41d) Socrates says that a ‘good man is not harmed in life or death’. Throughout the dialogue he also discusses his ‘divine sign’ which prevents him from engaging in wrong doing. In another dialogue the Gorgias Socrates says that ‘doing what’s unjust is actually the worst thing there is’ and that it is better to suffer injustice then to do it (Gorg. 469b-c). These ideas seemed highly counter-intuitive to Socrates’ own audience and perhaps even more so to our own way of thinking. Since at least the time of Thomas Hobbes an emphasis has been placed on ‘self-preservation’ as a hallmark of rationality. Yet here in the Apology Socrates deliberately responds to the jury in a way that imperils his life. There are two questions here which can be taken in turn or separately. 1)Is Socrates being irrational in the way that he acts before the jury; would it have been more rational for him to act in another way(Apol. 36a-39e)? 2) Is Socrates correct that good man can’t be harmed in life or death? in what sense is this true? if at all? even if the good man is not harmed by others, could one be unjust to one’s self by not adequately defending oneself? is Socrates guilty of this sort of injustice as Crito seems to hint (Crito 45c-d)? Respond to any or all of the above and end your posting with a question of your own.

Do not start reading your textbook, if you can help it! Rather, for the first week, read the articles in the first module. Do so without reading the text book. Select one of the articles in the module, Controversial Art , and focus on the art the article describes. You might even find a rendering of the artwork online.   Explain in 250-300 words, what you are looking it, where it was exhibited (if it was exhibited), and why you think the piece in question is art or why you think it is not art.  Be clear in your explanations. If you have cheated, and you are already using the book (or you’re not cheating and you’re just using knowledge you come with), explain why some people–some people you may know–would say that the piece you have selected is not art. Post your response. Respond to a classmate who has not received a response. Use the following rubric to evaluate your classm Art and Pornography is the topic