Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. What is an intrinsic value? 2. What is an extrinsic value? 3. What is monism? Why would someone argue for this position? 4. What is pluralism? Why would someone argue for this position? 5. What is incommensurability? Why would it lead to pluralism? 6. What is moral relativism?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1 .What are the four virtues that Plato thinks the state should be founded upon? 2 . What is the definition of a citizen, according to Aristotle? 3 . Why was China’s Warring States era also known as the “hundred schools of thought” period? 4 . Why is Mohism considered one of the earliest forms of consequentialism? 5 . What are some of the similarities between Plato’s republic and Al-Farabi’s cities of excellence?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. Explain the difference between internal and external theories of justification. 2. Describe the similarities and differences between coherentism and foundationalism. 3. Explain how justification is fallible.

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1 . What is the fact-value distinction? 2 . How are evaluative claims different from descriptive claims? 3 . How does Hume describe the is-ought problem? 4 . Why does Moore object to the naturalistic fallacy? 5 . Why do moral realists object to the fact-value distinction? 6 . How does ethical naturalism argue for moral objectivity?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. Define applied epistemology. 2. Why are knowledge and justification a social matter? 3. Define testimonial injustice and offer an example of it.

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. How did Marx feel that the social problems of industrialization and urbanization should be addressed? 2. What is hermeneutics? 3. What is meant by historicity? 4. What did philosopher Paul Ricoeur mean by “discourse?”

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. What does John Stuart Mill consider to be real freedom? 2. What does negative liberty mean in the political sense? 3. What two principles does John Rawls say should govern society? 4. What is the focus of egalitarian movements? 5. Where do anarchists believe disorder comes from? 6. Why does Karl Marx believe workers are alienated from their labor?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. What does “ontology of value” mean? 2. What does moral realism argue? 3. What does moral anti-realism argue? 4. How does the concept of God serve as a possible foundation for morality? How does religion serve as a possible foundation for morality? 5. What is the Euthyphro problem? How is it related to divine command theory? 6. How does nature serve as a possible foundation for morality and moral reasoning? 7. What is feminist care ethics? 8. What is Kant’s categorical imperative? How does it use reason to establish morality?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. Why is epistemology considered a normative discipline? 2. Why is conceptual analysis important in epistemology? 3. What is the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge? 4. What is propositional knowledge?

Select one of the questions below and answer it. Respond in essay form, using a minimum of 250 words. Use your best reasoning skills and your own writing. Do not worry about using perfect grammar and spelling. Instead, focus on demonstrating your knowledge of the class materials and your ability to describe and analyze concepts and ideas. Indicate which question you’re answering by placing the prompt’s number at the start of your response. 1. What is hedonism, and how is it used to philosophize about well-being? 2. What is Epicurus’s concept of pleasure? 3. How do utilitarians determine what is valuable? 4. What is Nozick’s experience machine, and how does it help you think about the limitations of hedonism? 5. What is satisfactionism? Why is it important to consider informed desire? 6. How do objective goods like knowledge, virtue, and friendship contribute to well-being? 7. What is eudaimonia? How did Anscombe revive eudaimonism? 8. What is Kant’s “kingdom of ends”? 9. What is ikigai, and how is it distinct from hedonistic well-being?