What might society look like in your opinion if the rights that you value most were taken away? If relevant, how could society do a better job of promoting, protecting, or advancing the rights that you cherish?

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legal rights and universal rights

We all have legal rights and universal rights (make sure to know the differences between these two rights – this is an important distinction). In addition to legal rights and universal rights you learn a few other new categories of rights this week: negative rights and positive rights. First, provide a definition in your own words along with an example of all four of these rights in your discussion this week. This section is worth 2 marks. Expect to write a paragraph for this section.

Second, after you have completed the first section, then do some research on your rights and share which rights you cherish most and explain why. What might society look like in your opinion if the rights that you value most were taken away? If relevant, how could society do a better job of promoting, protecting, or advancing the rights that you cherish? As you work on this task do pay attention to how we integrate legal rights into society over time, and how legal rights and positive rights vary from country to country. This section is worth 2 marks. Expect to write at least a paragraph for this section as well.

Compare and contrast essay between one theme between two authors for example the theme of Freedom in the authors Sartre and Camus.

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Compare and contrast essay between one theme between two authors

5-6 pages in length, double-spaced. This is an open-ended paper. Professor said it can be a compare and contrast essay between one theme between two authors for example the theme of Freedom in the authors Sartre and Camus. Comparing the different ideas they bring.

Compare Aristotle’s virtue theory with utilitarianism and/or Kantianism. Which theory best explains our moral life?

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Compare Aristotle’s virtue theory with utilitarianism and/or Kantianism. Which theory best explains our moral life?

Use Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics.

Analyze the movie from Fromm’s perspective. Choose at least two characters who represent true disobedience and false disobedience and two characters who represent different types of obedience in the movie.

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Assignment for Oliver Stones movie Natural Born Killers

Nietzsche offers two models for understanding morality: Good versus Bad; and Evil versus Good. Choose two characters from the movie whose actions and the explanation of their actions could be interpreted according to the first model (Good versus Bad), and two characters whose actions and the explanation of their actions could be interpreted according to the second model (Evil versus Good). In each case, explain your choice. Support your choice with episodes from the movie.

Reading Fromm, we learned to distinguish authentic, true disobedience from false disobedience and to distinguish heteronomous obedience from autonomous obedience. Analyze the movie from Fromm’s perspective. Choose at least two characters who represent true disobedience and false disobedience and two characters who represent different types of obedience in the movie. Explain and justify your choice by using Fromm’s arguments and episodes from the movie.

Does knowledge apply safety sensitivity or neither? Defend your answer

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Safety and sensitivity

Does knowledge apply safety sensitivity or neither? Defend your answer

Does that argument make an unwarranted assumption—have a false premise—or does its conclusion not follow strictly from the premises—is it invalid?

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Attitudinal Hedonism

Choose a specific version of Hedonism we’ve discussed (for instance, one of the four from part A), and offer an argument in favor of it specifically.
Present the best objection you can to the argument from B.1. (Does that argument make an unwarranted assumption—have a false premise—or does its conclusion not follow strictly from the premises—is it invalid?)
Defend the argument in B.1 as best you can (you can either argue that the objection in B.2 is misplaced or you can modify the original argument in B.1 so that it isn’t vulnerable to the objection). Is your defense enough to save the argument?

What does the Justified True Belief theory of knowledge say about what is necessary and sufficient for knowledge? Provide your own example of knowledge that meets these conditions.

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Gettier

On Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” What does the Justified True Belief theory of knowledge say about what is necessary and sufficient for knowledge? Provide your own example of knowledge that meets these conditions. Does Gettier argue that these conditions are unnecessary, insufficient, or both? Why so? Provide your own Gettier-style counter-example that demonstrates Gettier’s argument.

Which approach do you believe overall provides a more compelling and practically useful approach to living a good life? Support your position with several clearly explained reasons.

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Prompt 3

Compare and contrast two of the following ways of life: Buddhism, Taoism, and Ancient Aztec Virtue Ethics. Your answer should include the following:

A comparison of the goals of each way of life.
An explanation of the similarities and/or differences between their understanding of reality and how this influences their view of how people ought to live their lives.
An explanation of the similarities and/or differences between their beliefs about the practices and behaviors needed to achieve a good life.
Lastly, which approach do you believe overall provides a more compelling and practically useful approach to living a good life?
Support your position with several clearly explained reasons.
If you think neither approach is compelling nor practically useful, then be sure to provide reasons for rejecting both approaches.
If you think both approaches equally compelling and practically useful, then be sure to provide reasons that clearly show how neither approach has a clear advantage or disadvantage over the other.

Explain the specific aspects of these philosophical perspectives that you think bests respond to the challenge posed by nihilism.

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Prompt 2

Nietzsche’s account of nihilism and his philosophy of life affirmation can be regarded as a response to the following question, “Why should we consider the philosophical ways of life that we explore in our units on the good life?” In my lecture on Nietzsche, I argue that we can regard the ways of life explored in the course as responses to the challenge posed by nihilism. Each philosophical perspective provides an account of the good life that provides a path to living a meaningful life. In this prompt, you will assess the degree to which this has been true of the philosophical perspectives we have considered (Aristotle, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Ancient Aztec Virtue Ethics).

Begin by explaining nihilism and how it poses a challenge to living a meaningful life.
Next, explain Nietzsche’s account of nihilism.
Then, pick two philosophical perspectives we have considered (Aristotle, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Ancient Aztec Virtue Ethics).
Explain the specific aspects of these philosophical perspectives that you think bests respond to the challenge posed by nihilism.
Lastly, evaluate the degree to which the two perspectives you have explained successfully respond to the challenge of nihilism: do they articulate a way of life capable of overcoming nihilism? Explain why or why not.

How does DesJardins see the interaction between ethics and culture? Do you agree with his characterization?

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Interaction between ethics and culture

From Chapter 4, How does DesJardins see the interaction between ethics and culture? Do you agree with his characterization?
Give philosophically adequate arguments. Give an accurate analysis of the arguments presented and to give well-constructed arguments. Lastly, give an accurate account of the theories and terms presented in the reading