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• PHI 105 Entire Course

• PHI 105 Week 1 Assignment Short Essay

• PHI 105 Week 2 Assignment Dialogue Between Plato
  and Aristotle
• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 1
• PHI 103 Week 2 DQ 2
• PHI 105 Week 3 Assignment Augustine and
  Skepticism
• PHI 105 Week 3 Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology

• Resource Writing Wizard at the Center for
  Writing Excellence
• Select a Pre-Socratic philosopher you feel had
  the most compelling ideas.
• Write a 350- to 700-word essay on the
  Pre-Socratic philosopher you selected. Introduce
  your essay with a concise thesis statement, and
  follow

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• PHI 105 Week 1 DQ 1

• PHI 105 Week 1 Open Book Philosophy Quiz

• From where does evil arise? Who defines "evil"?.

• Complete the Open-Book Philosophy Quiz.

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• PHI 105 Week 2 Assignment Dialogue

• PHI 105 Week 2 DQ 1

• Imagine that you are observing Plato and
  Aristotle at Platos Academy arguing over the
  Theory of Forms and the Theory of Knowledge. You
  are a young student taking notes on the argument.
• Resource Philosophy The Power of Ideas, pp.
  4961

• Thought Experiment -- The Ring of Gyges
• I look forward to your participation! Also,
  please remember to respond to FIRST MESSAGES!
• In Book II of Plato's famous utopia The Republic,
  his characters are arguing about what it means to
  do good and to be just

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• PHI 105 Week 2 Socrates Essay

• PHI 105 Week 3 Assignment Augustine and Skepticism

• For this assignment, you will choose from the
  following options
• Option 1 Socrates the Afterlife
• Option 2 Socrates Knowledge
• Read the instructions in the University of
  Phoenix Material

• Resource Writing Wizard at the Center for
  Writing Excellence
• Write a 350- to 700-word essay assessing
  Augustines three refutations of total
  skepticism. Remember to introduce your topic with
  a concise thesis statement and follow up with
  supportive arguments

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• PHI 105 Week 3 DQ 1

• PHI 105 Week 3 DQ 2

• Is it possible to experience anything other than
  your own perceptions? Why, or why don't you think
  so?

• Descartes famously argued that he could not rely
  on his body, senses, and even his idea of reality
  because he did not know if he was dreaming or
  not. Sometimes, he wrote, he would think he was
  awake, only to realize that he was just having a
  very realistic dream

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• PHI 105 Week 3 DQ 3

• PHI 105 Week 3 Modern Metaphysics

• Skeptics say "Nothing can be known." Do you think
  there can be an objection to this claim? If so
  what is it? If not, why not?

• Four companiesDualism, Inc., Materialism, Co.,
  Idealism, LLC, and Alternative Views, Ltd.are
  competing for the right to claim that they are
  The Correct Metaphysical/Epistemological View.

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• PHI 105 Week 4 Assignment Letter to a Philosopher

• PHI 105 Week 4 Comparison Essay

• Resource Writing Wizard at the Center for
  Writing Excellence
• Write a 700- to 1400-word letter to a
  representative philosopher in one of the
  following schools of thought, discussing why you
  agree or disagree with his or her position on
  this concept

• Resource Writing Wizard at the Center for
  Writing Excellence
• Write a 350- to 700-word essay comparing
  Continental, Pragmatic, and Analytic
  philosophies.
• In your essay, include
• Examples of the three schools.

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• PHI 105 Week 4 DQ 1

• PHI 105 Week 4 DQ 2

• Thought Experiment - The Myth of Sisyphus
• Looking forward to your responses!
• Albert Camus, an existential philosopher who
  lived from 1912 to 1960, wrote an essay titled
  "The Myth of Sisyphus," in 1941 (during World War
  II).

• "Square circles are non-existent things." "No
  squares are circles." Which of these two
  propositions is simpler from the standpoint of a
  philosophical analysis? Why?

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• PHI 105 Week 5 DQ 1

• PHI 105 Week 5 DQ 2

• Is pleasure always the ultimate object of a
  person's desires? Why, or why not?

• Do all morally good actions have a single thing
  in common with each other? Why, or why not? Is it
  possible to have moral values without a belief in
  God? Why, or why not? Are moral value judgments
  merely an expression of personal preference, or
  are they a cultural artifact? Why do you think so?