For Buckminster Fuller, why is the earth a spaceship? What are the moral implications?Discuss
For Buckminster Fuller, why is the earth a spaceship? What are the moral implications?
Category: Philosophy
Explain Aristotle’s function argument for identifying the chief good.
Explain Aristotle’s “function argument” for identifying the chief good. That is, clearly state the argument and sufficiently explain it in your own words.
Explain the Stoic distinction between what is in our power and what is not.
Explain the Stoic distinction between what is in our power and what isn’t. That is, explain this distinction, explain why it is relevant to the Stoic way of life, indicate what it is that is in our power and what isn’t, and indicate why Epictetus thinks most things are not in our power.
Explain the debate surrounding the Altar of Victory.
Explain the debate surrounding the Altar of Victory. That is, explain at least two of the reasons Symmachus gives for why the altar and its associated rituals should stay, and explain Ambrose’s response to each of these reasons and his own position on the relevant matters.
Explain the Epicurean tetrapharmakos (or “four-fold remedy”).
Explain the Epicurean “tetrapharmakos” (or “four-fold remedy”). That is, clearly state what it is, explain what it intended to do, and sufficiently explain it in your own words – including explaining how it is thought by Epicureans to accomplish its aim.
What is Aristotle’s definition of the soul?Discuss
What is Aristotle’s definition of the soul? Clearly identify the definition, but also take care to sufficiently explain, in your own words, each technical term in the definition, and explain what implication this definition has for the question of what relation the soul has to the body.
What is the method of ascent that Bonaventure describes? In your own words, explain what this method of ascent is.
What is the “method of ascent” that Bonaventure describes? In your own words, explain what this method of ascent is – i.e., what it’s goal is and how it proceeds toward this goal – and briefly describe the three stages this method of ascent follows.
Explain Aristotle’s distinction between the sublunary and the celestial spheres.
Explain Aristotle’s distinction between the sublunary and the celestial spheres. That is, explain in your own words what this distinction is, why he makes it, and how motion works in each sphere.
Explain Aristotle’s theory of the four kinds of cause.
Explain Aristotle’s theory of the four kinds of cause. That is, explain in your own words what this is a theory about, what the four kinds of cause are, and provide an illustration of the analysis of something into each of its four kinds of cause.
How does all of this affect our lives, given the current conditions of the pandemic?Explain
Consider why media react in the way described. Are media consumers being formed by what is highlighted? Are media outlets reacting to a preexisting consumer mindset? Or some combination of the two? How does all of this affect our lives, given the current conditions of the pandemic? Relate to David Foster Wallace on attention and […]