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2. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Entire Course PHI 208 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Philosophy For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Most people have views that are strongly influenced and informed by philosophy, often without realizing it. Identify a view you have—whether on politics, religion, science, culture, or even the media and entertainment—that might be regarded as being related to philosophy. What kind of reasons do you have for holding that belief? • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • PHI 208 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Philosophy? • PHI 208 Week 1 DQ 2 Justifying Beliefs • PHI 208 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism • PHI 208 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights

3. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 1 DQ 2 Justifying Beliefs PHI 208 Week 2 Assignment Famine, Affluence, and Morality For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Peter Singer – “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Please read the article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” by Peter Singer and complete the following tasks: • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Many philosophers insist that our most strongly held beliefs should be examined and critically evaluated. Using the required text and outside sources, explain what philosophers mean when they say that beliefs need justification? What is the importance of subjecting our beliefs to critical scrutiny? What are the advantages of believing something without examining it? What are the disadvantages? Identify a specific belief you have that you think is worth defending, and then explain your reasons for holding that belief. Be sure to include logical reasoning as well as factual evidence in all your arguments.

4. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism PHI 208 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Do human beings have any obligations to animals in terms of their treatment? If it is wrong to treat animals cruelly, why is it not wrong to eat them? Explain if, and how, you think humans can find a balance between treating animals ethically while also raising them for food and for other reasons, such as the testing of pharmaceuticals. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Our text discusses the challenge relativism presents to various ethical and religious viewpoints. Consider a specific moral question which might make it difficult to accept the relativist's response. State the moral issue involved, and provide an explanation as to why you think a relativist might have a problem giving a justified response to it. In addition, use one of the positive ethical theories from the text to interpret the issue and how one should respond to this issue.

5. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment The Euthyphro by Plato PHI 208 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com The Limits of Skepticism Can a person be skeptical about everything, or are there limits? Is it possible to doubt everything or almost everything? Does a person have an obligation to use ethical and moral reasoning when examining ones beliefs. Are there beliefs you possess that cannot be challenged or shown to be false? How might the skeptic respond to your claim that such a belief cannot be doubted? Identify one such specific belief and present your response to the skeptic. (If you don't have such a belief, explain how one could live while not accepting any claim as true.) • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Euthyphro – Plato • In the Euthyphro, Socrates and Euthyphro discuss the concept of piety/holiness. This essay will not only test your ability to recognize and engage philosophical concepts and analysis, but also brings you into the dialogue as a participant, asking you to create your own definition of holiness.

6. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 3 DQ 2 Truth and the Limits of Knowledge PHI 208 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God's Existence For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Proof of God’s Existence After reading about the various proofs of the existence of God, identify which of these arguments seems to be the best, and explain why you think so. If you find none of them convincing, present your best argument against one of these proofs and why it fails to accomplish its task. Complete your response by reflecting on why philosophers have sought for thousands of years to provide such proofs, and whether it is necessary to do so. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Truth and the Limits of Knowledge • Explain the epistemological perspective from the text (or outside sources) that most coincides with your view of truth and the way that the human mind grasps reality. Explain why you find it to be the best explanation of the way that the human mind is able to understand its world. Finally, present your views on whether humans can actually know the truth about objects or ideas in the world. If you believe they can, explain why. If you do not think they can, explain why not. Feel free to consult outside academic sources in order to explain more of the details of the theory that you describe here.

7. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test PHI 208 Week 5 Assignment Final paper The existence of God For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Three important sub-disciplines of philosophy are addressed in this course: ethics, epistemology, and religion. For this paper, you will develop an argument that includes your own view on one specific topic relating to one of these sub-disciplines. Below is a list of topics from which you must choose. Feel free to combine topics that seem to fit with one another. It is recommended that you choose a topic that interests you or that you have thought about previously. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • The Turing Test • Present three specific questions that you would ask in the Turing Test to determine if something is real or artificial intelligence. Explain why you think these questions would be the type to reveal the computer to be a computer? Why would these responses have to be given by a human being? (If you don't think there are such questions, explain how the three questions you chose would fail to determine which one of the respondents was a computer and which was an actual human.)

8. PHI 208 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PHI 208 Week 5 DQ 1 The Meaning of Life PHI 208 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Philosophy and Society After watching Relationship of Philosophy to Other Fields, reflect on the relationship of philosophy to your life in terms of your future education and career goals. What value does philosophy have? How can people benefit from thinking more philosophically? How does philosophy affect ethical issues? What significance does thinking and reasoning critically play in society, and in human flourishing? • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • The Meaning of Life • Chapter 5 is focused on the meaning of human life. Present your view on the ultimate meaning of life. Be sure to back up your view with logical reasoning and as much evidence as you can. What gives human life meaning? How do you know? How should one act in the world once one realizes this meaning? Connect your ideas on the essential meaning of life to the views of at least one philosopher. This philosopher can be someone whom we studied or can come from an outside source. You might connect your ideas in a harmonious or contradictory way. Utilize the academic resources aligned with this course to find a philosopher that coincides with or contradicts your own ideas.

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