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• PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Ethics and Relativism
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• 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.
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• PHI 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Animal Rights
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• 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.

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• PHI 200 Week 2 Written Assignment Assisted
  Suicide
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• 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

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• PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 1 The Limits of Skepticism
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• 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
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• PHI 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Creationism and Science
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• 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.
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• PHI 200 Week 3 Written Assignment Final Paper
  (Death Penalty)
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• 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

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• PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Proof of God's Existence
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• 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.
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• PHI 200 Week 4 DQ 2 The Turing Test
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• 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.)

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• PHI 200 Week 4 Quiz
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• . 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?
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• PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 1 The Value of Philosophy
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• 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.
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• PHI 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Philosophy and Society
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• 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?
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• PHI 200 Week 5 Written Assignment Final
  Argumentative Paper Death Penalty
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• 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
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