How does Aristotle reconcile Platonic dualism in his view of the unification of essences within material reality?

In your original responses, be sure to cite primary source quotations in the words of the philosophers in addition to secondary source information about their ideas.

Examples:

Descartes reached the conclusion, “cogito ergo sum” .
Secondary source: Descartes methodological doubt led to the certainty of the mind or thinking subject.
Focused Questions:

Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on the nature of form and matter. How does Aristotle reconcile Platonic dualism in his view of the unification of essences within material reality?
Explain Descartes method in his Meditations on First Philosophy. How does does his doubt lead to the certainty of “cogito ergo sum.” How did this realization lead to the mind-body problem in modern philosophy?
In your original responses, be sure to cite primary source quotations in the words of the philosophers in addition to secondary source information about their ideas.

In what ways has this person impacted your life? What key insights have you gained from this person?

In Part II of your essay, describe what you have learned from the person on whom you are focusing. Here, you could address questions such as the following: In what ways has this person impacted your life? What key insights have you gained from this person? How has this person helped you develop and strengthen the character traits you have just written about in Part I? How does this person inspire you and encourage you to be the person you most want to be? How has this person helped you deepen your self-awareness? How has this person helped you identify meaningful goals and inspired you to work toward their realization?

Of course, you need not respond to all of these questions. The main task in Part II is to write about what have you have learned from the moral model you have chosen and, more generally, how that person has impacted your life.

Would people work hard and be happier or would there be more laziness and crime than we have now?

Your therapy session begins with “Know-it-all Therapist Jeff” asking you your favorite Opinion Paper question and you pasting in the answer you gave in your Opinion Paper.

Then Jeff will clearly explain the philosophical concepts that would be most critical and helpful for your neurotic, delusional views. Have Jeff fully and clearly explain these critiques as well as show how they apply to your opinions and your life in detail. Then, it is your turn to accept the criticism in a sob-filled apology or try to defend yourself against the criticism.

Original Opinion Paper question:
If all jobs had roughly equal salaries, you could attend college for free to qualify for these jobs, and everyone had good health insurance, would people work hard and be happier or would there be more laziness and crime than we have now?

Describe Locke’s empirical approach to the self as a tabula rasa. How is memory central to the notion of self-identity in Locke’s philosophy? What are the strengths and weakness of memory as the key to self-identity?

FOLLOW RUBIC ATTACHED AS WELL AS USE SOURCES PROVIDED
Using the text and online resources in this module, summarize any video, and respond to one of the following focused questions in at least 500 words.  Also, respond to two classmates .
Focused Questions:
1.Describe Locke’s empirical approach to the self as a tabula rasa. How is memory central to the notion of self-identity in Locke’s philosophy? What are the strengths and weakness of memory as the key to self-identity?
2.Describe Hume’s argument that the self is a fiction or artificial construct. How does Hume’s argument compare to the Buddhist concept of anatta or no-self?
3.Examine the changing perception of the personal identity from the ancients to contemporary eliminative materialists. How is the perception of the brain different than the perception of the soul?
4.Browse through Chapter 4  and the Online Resources on Free Will and Determinism. How does freewill and determinism apply to our perception of the self?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-soul/



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Do you believe in God? If so, can you state reasons for your belief? Do you think your belief is rational?Explain

Question Choices:

Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should cite the textbook and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response.

1. Do you believe in God? If so, can you state reasons for your belief? Do you think your belief is

rational? Would you believe in God whether or not you had good reasons? Explain your position on

these questions.

2. Would you consider yourself an agnostic or atheist? If so, do you have reasons for your lack of belief

in God? Is your lack of belief rational? Do you think that believers are irrational? Explain.

3. What is William Paley’s teleological argument? Do you think the analogy between a watch and the

universe is strong enough to prove the existence of a designer?

4. What is the argument from evil? Do you think the existence of evil shows that God doesn’t exist? Why

or why not?

5. Some philosophers and theologians believe that reason is a gift from God and should be used in the

search for truth about God. Do you agree?

6.. What is Aquinas’s first-cause argument? Does it prove the existence of the traditional God of theism?

Does it prove that the universe had a first cause?

7. What is Craig’s cosmological argument? Critique its two premises. Are they true? Explain why you

think they are true (or false). If the argument is sound, what does it prove? Does it prove that God

exists?

8. What are the relevant similarities and differences between Paley’s watch and the universe? Is the

watch analogy a good one?

9. Are Hume’s criticisms of the design argument cogent? Does he successfully refute it?

10. Are the assumptions behind Anselm’s argument justified? That is, are there good reasons for

accepting them?

Analyze Trying Out One’s Sword Reading.

Topic:

Trying Out One’s Sword Reading

Questions to Address:

1 – What is the issue/topic which the author is responding to? (Write a 2 – 3 sentence summary of the topic and

its importance.)

2 – What is the author’s conclusion? What view or idea are they arguing for? (They will often tell you what

they’re arguing at the beginning of their paper, so read carefully!)

3 – What reasons does the author give in support of their conclusion? How do these reasons imply the truth of

the author’s conclusion?

4 – What counterarguments, alternative/opposing views, or objections does the author consider? How do they

(the author) respond?

5 – Do you agree with the author’s conclusion? Why/not?

6 – Do you think the author’s argument establishes their conclusion? Why/not?

7 – Do you think the author has adequately responded to counterarguments, objections, or alternative/opposing

views? Why/not?

8 – What implications does the author’s argument (conclusion and reasoning) have for other topics or issues?

Is this absolutely necessary- can we challenge preconceptions and our viewers when they look at our work?

The idea of composition is based on the organisation of information in a tangible way that makes sense and allows the viewer to ‘read’ the image clearly.

Is this absolutely necessary- can we challenge preconceptions and our viewers when they look at our work?

Look at how Alexey Brodovitch made images come alive, and then find one image online, or one of your own, and compare it with Brodovitch’s work and write a 300 word reflection on your process of discovery concerning the importance of composition and pre-visualisation.

Comment on at least two other peers observations in the forum.