Category: Philosophy

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Essay 4: “Hey, Sisyphus, How’s It Rolling?”
Background: Albert Camus, in “The Myth of Sisyphus,” describes Sisyphus, a mythical king cursed to roll a rock up a hill for eternity. Camus argues that Sisyphus should be happy in spite of the absurdity of his situation.
You may write Essay 4 in one of two ways:
1. Dialogue Option
You may write this as a dialogue in which you interview Sisyphus and ask him some questions. (Ex: “Hey Sisyphus, do you feel like this is absurd?” –”Nah, I read Camus and now things are great….”)
If you choose the dialogue option, just be sure to include answers to all parts of the questions below. If you do the dialogue option, you do not need to number sections. That would look weird in a dialogue.
2. Essay Option
You may also write it as a normal essay. Both options should cover the questions below. If you choose the essay version, your essay should have no less than 5 paragraphs and a bibliography citing Camus and Nagel.
Questions to Address in Your Piece
Describe Sisyphus’s situation as Camus understands it. Explain how Camus wants Sisyphus to cope with his situation and why. Why is it relevant to us? Quote and cite the text to support your claims. You can also refer to the cartoon in this part: it goes into slightly more detail on the story of Sisyphus, though not as much about Camus’s response.
Why does Nagel disagree with Camus about Sisyphus? How does Nagel think we ought to deal with absurd situations? Why? Quote and cite the text to support your claims.
Between Nagel and Camus, who do you think has the better answer to how Sisyphus should feel about his situation, and why? Give reasons to support your conclusion. How do you think ordinary people should deal with everyday absurd situations? Is there a difference between this and how Sisyphus should deal with his situation? If so why? If not, why not?
Can life be meaningful and absurd at the same time? If so, give an example. If not, explain why not. Are meaningfulness and absurdity really opposites? Why or why not? Consider and reply to at least one objection to your view.
IMPORTANT
You may not use any sources except your own brains and the course readings and lectures to write essays and assignments for this course. This includes: books and articles not assigned in the course, as well as paraphrase bots or other AI writing tools. This is because one of the goals of the assignments is for you to learn to read and think about the readings. If you include outside sources on an assignment during the semester, I will ask you to re-do the assignment.
Before writing, please review the academic dishonesty policy in the syllabus.
FORMATTING and STYLE
Answer the questions in order.
Please double-space.
Citations to the course materials (readings and/or lectures) are required in order to receive a passing grade. You may cite my lectures and slides but citations to the readings are better. Citing sources outside of the course readings is not ok and will result in a non-passing grade, as will the use of citations that aren’t real.
Use ‘I’! It makes it clearer which thoughts are yours, and makes you sound less like a robot.
Do not include a title/cover page–that’s unnecessary.
Use parenthetical citations to the text support your claims about the author’s work. Here is an example of how to format parenthetical citations:
“Meno calls Socrates a torpedo fish (Plato, Meno, p. 70).”
“Ryle says that a parrot does not have know-how” (‘Know-How and Know-That,” 40).

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Essay 4: “Hey, Sisyphus, How’s It Rolling?”
Background: Albert Camus, in “The Myth of Sisyphus,” describes Sisyphus, a mythical king cursed to roll a rock up a hill for eternity. Camus argues that Sisyphus should be happy in spite of the absurdity of his situation.
You may write Essay 4 in one of two ways:
1. Dialogue Option
You may write this as a dialogue in which you interview Sisyphus and ask him some questions. (Ex: “Hey Sisyphus, do you feel like this is absurd?” –”Nah, I read Camus and now things are great….”)
If you choose the dialogue option, just be sure to include answers to all parts of the questions below. If you do the dialogue option, you do not need to number sections. That would look weird in a dialogue.
2. Essay Option
You may also write it as a normal essay. Both options should cover the questions below. If you choose the essay version, your essay should have no less than 5 paragraphs and a bibliography citing Camus and Nagel.
Questions to Address in Your Piece
Describe Sisyphus’s situation as Camus understands it. Explain how Camus wants Sisyphus to cope with his situation and why. Why is it relevant to us? Quote and cite the text to support your claims. You can also refer to the cartoon in this part: it goes into slightly more detail on the story of Sisyphus, though not as much about Camus’s response.
Why does Nagel disagree with Camus about Sisyphus? How does Nagel think we ought to deal with absurd situations? Why? Quote and cite the text to support your claims.
Between Nagel and Camus, who do you think has the better answer to how Sisyphus should feel about his situation, and why? Give reasons to support your conclusion. How do you think ordinary people should deal with everyday absurd situations? Is there a difference between this and how Sisyphus should deal with his situation? If so why? If not, why not?
Can life be meaningful and absurd at the same time? If so, give an example. If not, explain why not. Are meaningfulness and absurdity really opposites? Why or why not? Consider and reply to at least one objection to your view.
IMPORTANT
You may not use any sources except your own brains and the course readings and lectures to write essays and assignments for this course. This includes: books and articles not assigned in the course, as well as paraphrase bots or other AI writing tools. This is because one of the goals of the assignments is for you to learn to read and think about the readings. If you include outside sources on an assignment during the semester, I will ask you to re-do the assignment.
Before writing, please review the academic dishonesty policy in the syllabus.
FORMATTING and STYLE
Answer the questions in order.
Please double-space.
Citations to the course materials (readings and/or lectures) are required in order to receive a passing grade. You may cite my lectures and slides but citations to the readings are better. Citing sources outside of the course readings is not ok and will result in a non-passing grade, as will the use of citations that aren’t real.
Use ‘I’! It makes it clearer which thoughts are yours, and makes you sound less like a robot.
Do not include a title/cover page–that’s unnecessary.
Use parenthetical citations to the text support your claims about the author’s work. Here is an example of how to format parenthetical citations:
“Meno calls Socrates a torpedo fish (Plato, Meno, p. 70).”
“Ryle says that a parrot does not have know-how” (‘Know-How and Know-That,” 40).

Consider the fallacies of relevance listed in Chapter 8 of our textbook. Think a

Consider the fallacies of relevance listed in Chapter 8 of our textbook. Think about a recent conversation or a recent news or magazine article you have read. Identify two fallacies of relevance you noticed in the conversation or article. You must list and discuss fallacies by name, as discussed in Chapter 8 of the textbook. Consider how you, personally, might avoid committing fallacies of relevance, and list two ways you can avoid them in the future. In your replies to students, note some polite ways to point out when someone commits a fallacy of relevance.

It happened after a concert. Sixteen-year-old Mary Pluski had gone with three of

It happened after a concert. Sixteen-year-old Mary Pluski had gone with three of her friends to hear Bruce Springstein at Chicago’s Blanton Auditorium. After the concert, in a crowed estimated at 11,000, Mary became separated from the other three girls. She decided that the best thing to do was to meet them at the car.
But when she got to the eight-story parking building, Mary realized she wasn’t sure what level they had parked on. She though it might be somewhere in the middle so she started looking on the fourth floor. While she was walking down the aisles of cars, two men in their early twenties, one white and the other black, stopped her an asked if she was having some kind of trouble.
Mary explained the situation to them, and one of the men suggested that they get his car and drive around inside the parking building. Mary hesitated, but both seemed so polite and genuinely concerned to help that she decided to go with them.
Once they were in the car, however, the situation changed. They drove out of the building and toward the South Side. Mary pleaded with them to let her out of the car. Then, some seven miles from the auditorium, the driver stopped the car in the dark area behind a vacant building. Mary was then raped by both men.
Mary was treated at Allenworth Hospital and released into the custody of her parents. She filed a complaint with the police, but her troubles were not yet over. Two weeks after she missed her menstrual period, tests showed that Mary was pregnant.
“How do you feel about having this child?” asked Sarah Ruben, the Pluski family physician.
“I hate the idea,” Mary said. “I feel guilty about it, though. I mean, it’s not the child’s fault.”
“Let me ask a delicate question,” said Dr. Ruben. “I know from what you’ve told me before that you and your boyfriend have been having sex. Can you be sure this pregnancy is not really the result of that?”
Mary shook her head. “Not really. I use my diaphragm, but I know it doesn’t give a hundred percent guarantee.”
“That’s right. Now, does it make any difference to you who the father might be, so far as a decision about terminating the pregnancy is concerned?”
“If I were to be sure it was Bob, I guess the problem would be even harder,” Mary said.
“There are some tests we can use to give us that information,” Dr. Ruben said. “But that would mean waiting for the embryo to develop into a fetus. It would be easier and safer to terminate the pregnancy now.”
Mary started crying. “I don’t want a child,” she said. “I don’t want any child. I don’t care who’s the father. It was forced on me, and I want to get rid of it.”
“I’ll make the arrangements,” said Dr. Ruben.
1. Reading Comprehension
For this case of Mary’s pregnancy what would each of the following authors hold and WHY : Provide a paragraph on each explaining their positions and use some quotations.
A. Sarah Jones
B. Sidney Callahan,
C. Peter Alward
Find descriptions of their positions here:
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_8_Abortion/Readings.htm
2. Critical Thinking
Using the DIALECTICAL PROCESS state what your ethical position would be on the Case of Mary and why. You are to take a position and defend it. You should use some ethical principle to decide what you think is the morally correct thing to do. You must state those principles and explain how they have been applied to the situation. You should indicate that you have rejected alternative positions to your own and the reasons why you have done so. In so doing you need to enunciate clearly the values and ethical principle(s) you are using to both reject the alternative positions and to defend or support your own. The ethical principles were presented in Module/Chapter 2 and include Egoism, Utility, Natural Law, Categorical Imperative, Maxi-Min Principle, Existentialism, Feminism. Refer to one or more of these as ethical principles when answering assignments. Do not use the Moral Principles of Health Care as Ethical Principles. The Moral Principles involved in Health Care include: Autonomy, Informed Consent, Truth Telling, Confidentiality, Privacy. These are NOT the basic ethical principles such as include Egoism, Utility, Natural Law, Categorical Imperative, Maxi-Min Principle, Existentialism, Feminism. The moral principles are popular and recognized in several ways in health care including in “codes” and in statements of “rights” because there are so many of the Basic Ethical Principles that support the moral judgment that these MORAL Principles of Health Care are a MORALLY GOOD THING.
Use this template or form to make certain that you include each part of the process-parts a to e
Label your parts with the letters a to e to make very clear that you have done each part.
Dialectical thinking: the 5 parts
a. Take a position on this question or issue Be as exact as you can be. Be precise in your use of language (ethical principles and values).
b. Provide the reasons why you think this position is better defended by reason and evidence than are the alternative positions Position defended using reasoning (ethical principles and values) in support of the judgment (conclusion of the argument). You state the reasons why the position you take makes sense and has evidence and reasons (ethical principles and values) to support it other than your feelings or personal preference or your opinion or what you were brought up to believe or what just about everyone you know thinks or believes. Philosophers have offered such reasons (ethical principles and values). and evidence for the positions they have taken and you should consider them and if you agree you can and should so state them in support of your own position.
c. State the reasons why you found the other positions that use other (ethical principles and values). flawed or less defensible than the one you are defending
d. State the criticisms of your position from those who use other (ethical principles and values).
e. Respond to those criticisms from those using other (ethical principles and values).-a rebuttal- how do you defend your position in light of those criticisms?

It’s short answer questions. I will attach everything you need to do it! I attac

It’s short answer questions. I will attach everything you need to do it! I attached a file with the YouTube links the teacher told us about. You should be able to click on the links. I also attached the short answer questions. The file name for the questions is “Exam 2”. Thanks!

I am attaching all the instruction for the essay in a pdf here, please follow th

I am attaching all the instruction for the essay in a pdf here, please follow the instructions carefully and let me know if you have any questions!

Each journal entry is a paragraph on one of the assigned readings, and each entr

Each journal entry is a paragraph on one of the assigned readings, and each entry discusses a different reading assignment.
Each journal entry must include at least one quote from the reading assignment. Select a quote that makes a claim you have an opinion about, explain the quote in the context of the article it came from, and then express your opinion about it. For example, you may think the author is right, or wrong, or leaving out something important, etc. To receive full credit, you must express an opinion and give a reason for that opinion.
The goal of the journal entry is NOT to summarize the reading. Rather, the goal is to think about what the reading says, whether on the whole or in some specific part. For example, you could dispute an author’s interpretation of an example, critique a particular argument or conclusion, discuss how the author’s view applies — or fails to apply — to your own experience, relate the material to a TV show or movie, etc. What you think is up to you, but you must be sharing your own thoughts as opposed to just summarizing or saying generic things like “the author raises profound issues.”
Submit all four entries in a single document.

Week 3
Course Project: Issue Review
Assignment
Required Resources
Read/review th

Week 3
Course Project: Issue Review
Assignment
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 6, 7
Lesson
Conducting Research (Purdue OWL)Links to an external site.
How to Search the LibraryLinks to an external site.
Library Workshop ArchiveLinks to an external site. (various videos about research and APA format)
Minimum of 6 scholarly sources
Introduction
This week you continue to work on your paper that addresses a current controversial issue. This paper is to be in the form of an argument. You have selected a topic and chosen issues related to that topic; this week, you will thoroughly research both sides of the issues you have chosen. Keep in mind that your paper must define the issue, present evidence on both sides of the issue, and then argue that one side is stronger and more persuasive than the other. Your paper must address at least three relevant aspects of the issue. More specific directions for each part of the paper will be found within the specific assignment in the weekly modules; the assignment this week is to research both the pro and con sides of the issues you have chosen to address.
Here is a brief breakdown of the project so that you can plan your time in the course:
Week Task
Week 1 Topic Selection
Week 3 Issue Review (both sides)
Week 5 Thesis & Annotated Bibliography (both sides)
Week 7 Argumentative Paper
Instructions
This week, you will conduct an issue review for your selected topic for your project. Present a brief report of your research on both sides of the issue. This should include the following:
Citation of your sources
Links to the sources where available
Brief descriiption of the content of each of the sources (50 to 80 words for each source)
Your research review should address at least three (3) aspects of the issue that is the subject of your paper and must present at least one pro and one con article review on each aspect. Sources should be scholarly or of very high substantive quality.
Click on the following link to view an example. The first aspect is written out completely, with APA citation and brief descriiption of content. The next two aspects should be completely written out by you in your report, including correct APA citation and brief descriiption of content.
Example Issue Review
Issue: Legalization of Prostitution
Aspect 1: Safety
Pro: Stern, S. W., (2019). Sex workers of the world unite. The American Scholar, pp. 40-54.
The author presents the case, largely though the words of sex-workers themselves, for de-criminalization and for allowing sex workers to control the conditions of their work—that is, to operate brothels themselves, choose their physicians, provide and receive benefits, and work outside brothels if they so choose – which will make them safer and less apt to be exploited.
Con: Der Spiegel Staff. (2013, May). How legalizing prostitution has failed. Der Spiegel Online. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533.html
Staff writers report that since de-criminalization of prostitution in Germany in 2003, exploitation and human trafficking remain significant problems. According to one German law enforcement officer, Germany is a “center for the sexual exploitation of young women from Eastern Europe, as well as a sphere of activity for organized crime groups from around the world” (Germany’s Human Trafficking Problem section)
Aspect 2: SESTA/FOSTA
Pro: (APA citation to article supporting SESTA legislation; brief descriiption of content)
Con: (APA citation to article against SESTA legislation; brief descriiption of content)
Aspect 3: Economics
Pro: (APA citation to article showing better income/standard of living after de-criminalization; brief descriiption of content)
Con: (APA citation to article showing real economic benefit is to pimps, traffickers brief; descriiption of content)
Because the topics vary widely, the nature of your research will also vary. If you are writing about gene therapy, for example, you will have to support your points with scholarly medical opinion. You may need to review researching techniques. Visit the research links provided in the Required Resources section in this activity for more information.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 1-2 pages (not including title page)
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
References page
Grading
This activity will be graded using the W3 Course Project Grading Rubric.
Outcomes
CO 6: Apply principles of critical reasoning to political, educational, economic, and/or social issues.
CO 7: Create a fallacy-free argument that incorporates principles of ethical decision-making.
Due Date
By 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday
Rubric
W3 Course Project Grading Rubric – 75 pts
W3 Course Project Grading Rubric – 75 pts
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLength
5 pts
Meets length requirement
0 pts
Does not meet length requirement
5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeTimeliness & Authority
10 pts
All sources reflect current state of the issue OR, if historical, significance is explained; all sources are authoritative, credible, and reliable and are scholarly.
8.5 pts
Most sources reflect current state of the issue OR if historical, significance is explained; all sources are authoritative, credible and reliable; are either scholarly or are highly substantive.
7.5 pts
Most sources reflect current state of the issue, but few are scholarly or highly substantive.
6 pts
Sources reflect the current state of the issue but are primarily from popular sources.
0 pts
Sources do not reflect the current state of the issue.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 1 Pro
10 pts
Significant and substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
8.5 pts
Substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
7.5 pts
Some support to targeted aspect of issue
6 pts
On topic, but minimal support to targeted aspect of issue
0 pts
No support to targeted aspect of issue
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 1 Con
10 pts
Opposition view is strongly stated and specifically related to targeted aspect of issue.
8.5 pts
Opposition view clearly stated and related to targeted aspect of issue.
7.5 pts
Opposition view mixed but some opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
6 pts
On topic, but minimal opposition targeted aspect of issue.
0 pts
No opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 2 Pro
10 pts
Significant and substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
8.5 pts
Substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
7.5 pts
Some support to targeted aspect of issue
6 pts
On topic, but minimal support to targeted aspect of issue
0 pts
No support to targeted aspect of issue
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 2 Con
10 pts
Opposition view is strongly stated and specifically related to targeted aspect of issue.
8.5 pts
Opposition view clearly stated and related to targeted aspect of issue.
7.5 pts
Opposition view mixed but some opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
6 pts
On topic, but minimal opposition targeted aspect of issue.
0 pts
No opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 3 Pro
10 pts
Significant and substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
8.5 pts
Substantial support to targeted aspect of issue
7.5 pts
Some support to targeted aspect of issue
6 pts
On topic, but minimal support to targeted aspect of issue
0 pts
No support to targeted aspect of issue
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAspect 3 Con
10 pts
Opposition view is strongly stated and specifically related to targeted aspect of issue.
8.5 pts
Opposition view clearly stated and related to targeted aspect of issue.
7.5 pts
Opposition view mixed but some opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
6 pts
On topic, but minimal opposition targeted aspect of issue.
0 pts
No opposition to targeted aspect of issue.
10 p

In this paper, you will read all of these short stories and pick one to write a

In this paper, you will read all of these short stories and pick one to write a paper relating to course themes.
For your paper, choose one of the following
a. Leo Tolstoy, “Master and Man” or “Death of Ivan Ilych”
b. Jeffrey Eugenides, “Asleep in the Lord” (New Yorker excerpt version)
c. Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “Good Country
People”
d. Chekov, “Gooseberries”
e. David Foster Wallace, “Good People”
f. Tolkien, “Leaf by Niggle”
Your task, essentially, is to answer two questions:
(Q1) what is the story’s vision of the relationship, if any, between: ethics (ordinary goods and/or the good), religion, divine transcendence, and a (the?) good life?
and (Q2) how does this story assist in critical reflection on what is good and why?
There should be three parts to this paper:
(a) a succinct summary of the story, both plot and themes (approx. 25%);
(b) a critical analysis of the story in relation to course themes and readings (approx. 65%); basically: answering Q1 and Q2 above with assistance and critique from course authors; and
(c) whether or not it was a good story and why (approx. 10%).
You must explicitly reference scenes and characters from the story; direct quotations are appreciated. In explicitly tying back to course themes and readings, references to, and Chicago citations of, course readings are expected. Shoot for four (4) pages, give or take one page; 12 pt font, 1” margins.
Due: Thursday, May 30th (hard copy in class)
**Please use the course themes found in the lecture notes and use the authors discussed in lecture notes for the critical analysis and “answering Q1 and Q2 above with assistance and critique from course authors”
**I attached the short story to use when writing this paper, the assignment prompt, and the lecture notes

Explain and evaluate the allegory of the Cave (don’t retell the allegory), what

Explain and evaluate the allegory of the Cave (don’t retell the allegory), what is happening? Why is it philosophically important? 150 word minimum response.