Category: Social Science – Philosophy

Philosophical Reflection

 As reported in Platos account The Apology, Socrates famously claimed at his trial that The unexamined life is not worth living. In this course, you have had the opportunity to examine your own life and reality through the thoughts of the Ancient Greek philosophers. The purpose of this touchstone assignment is for you (1) to […]

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Discussion Questions 2

   Q1: Review your required reading, especially Goodsons (2017) Exercise 35 (attached), and the APA publication manual (2019) (Not attached it’s online), and think about your experiences in writing your introduction and literature review from RES 7011 (attached).  1. Discuss the strategies (successful and unsuccessful) you can use to organize and write your paper (attached […]

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Research goals and questions exercise

See this attached list of research goals and research questions.  1) Match the research goal to the research question(s) and  2) identify them as either qualitative or quantitative (no mixed methods yet), and  3) explain WHY it is so.  Use the (attached) table to cut/paste the goals and questions into and provide your answers.  Look […]

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Discussion Questions response

Please post a scholarly reply that are a minimum of 200 words each.  There are 3 different posts below. Read and come up with minimum 200 words, scholarly written to each of them. It is NOT required that every question or point be analyzed; more focused discussions on one or more central points are encouraged. […]

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self

 Do you think life has meaning? From your perspective, how do you define a meaningful or meaningless life? Is your life headed in one or the other direction towards meaningfulness or meaninglessness? Are you content with the way it is going? Does life with or without meaning affect our moral decision-making? Why or why not? […]

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Miss Aaliyah only

   1. What set of personal ethical principles you live by and how you formed them 2. How your ethical reasoning skills have been transformed, if at all, by your establishing a personal set of ethical principles to live by 3. Real-life experience where you have appliedyour set of ethical principles to make sound judgments […]

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dialogue

. The Book of Job (Bible) on the one hand, and Camus and Sartre on the other, reflect a stark contrast in attitude towards God and organized religion. Having said that, how might the two contrasting attitudes be reflected in their respective approaches to the following areas: A. Meaning/Meaninglessness of LifeB. Moral ResponsibilityC. Human Freedom 2. How would […]

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self

1. What obligations or duties do we have, if any, to animals? First, state and defend your position on this issue. Next, compare and contrast objections from philosophers such as Kant and Singer who may disagree with your point of view.  2. In one animal rights campaign years ago, there was a glossy poster with a beautiful […]

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dialogue

What is your gut reaction, if any, to Singers depiction of the treatment of veal calves and chickens on the modern industrialized farm? Did his article change your attitude toward the treatment of animals? Why or why not? 2. How would Kants ethical perspective on the moral status of animals compare or contrast with Singers? […]

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