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PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.phi200.com<br><br>PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism<br>PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights<br>PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide<br>PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism<br>PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science<br>PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper (Death Penalty)<br>PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God's Existence<br>PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test<br>PHI 200 Week 4 Quiz<br>PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy<br>PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society<br>PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper Death Penalty<br> <br>

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  1. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com

  2. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism • 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 problem giving a justified response to it.

  3. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights • Do human beings have any obligations to other 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.

  4. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted Suicide • Susan Wolf, in writing about her own father's death, confronts the problems that arise at the end of life, and challenges her to consider her views on assisted suicide.Putting yourself in Wolf's place, how would you respond to this tragic and difficult issue? In three pages (excluding the title and reference pages), state your own response

  5. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism • Can a person be skeptical about everything, or are there limits? Is it possible to doubt everything, or almost everything? 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

  6. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 3 DQ2 Creationism and Science • After watching the video, explain what the basic issue is about teaching creationism (or Intelligent Design) in public school science classes. Indicate how you would resolve this dispute. Be sure to support your answer. Respond and reply to your fellow students.

  7. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper (Death Penalty) For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper • For this rough draft, you must identify a specific philosophical issue having to do with ethics, epistemology, or religion. You will need to find a topic over which there is a useful debate, in order to present both sides of the debate. Here, you will not need to indicate what your own position is, relative to the issue; you will be doing that, however, in the final version

  8. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God's Existence For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 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. 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.

  9. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test • If you were asked to defeat the computer in the Turing Test (described in our book), what types of questions would you ask it? 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, you will need to explain what, if anything, shows that human beings are unique, and how it shows that.)

  10. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 4 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • . Question : The First Cause argument for the existence of God assumes that • 2. Question : The view that certain beliefs must be held solely on the basis of faith is called • 3. Question : The Ontological Proof of the Existence of God claims that God exists because • 4. Question : To adopt the Principle of Charity is to • 5. Question : Evolutionary theory responds to which argument for the existence of God, by showing that complexity can arise from natural causes? • ?

  11. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy • After reflecting on what you have read about and thought about in our course, select one topic that you thought was interesting, challenging, difficult, aggravating, new, or provocative. Discuss why you chose this particular topic, what you have learned about it and how it made you think a bit differently both about the issues this topic raises and about the value of philosophy.

  12. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society • After watching the video, "The 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? What significance does thinking and reasoning critically play in society, and in human flourishing?

  13. PHI 200 Innovative Educator/phi200.com PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper Death Penalty For more course tutorials visit www.phi200.com • PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final Argumentative Paper • 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. A list of topics to choose from is listed below. It is recommended that you choose a topic to write on that you have already encountered, or that you have thought about previously. (One way of thinking about this is to think of an

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