Pilosophy Homework

Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions.  Your response to each should be a minimum of one half of one page in length and should include examples from the reading assignments.

1.      Can you think of any people whom you consider self-actualized?  What traits do they show?

2.      Can you think of any qualities that you see in yourself that you do not need others to have?

3.      If each self in society is what it is because other selves have made it that way, then is all responsibility ultimately group responsibility?  That is, when an individual does something evil, must we say that everyone in society is responsible for the evil?

4.      What is the difference, if any, between approaching reality through the methods of the natural sciences and approaching reality philosophically?

5.      Is there anything that women can bring to philosophy that men cannot?  Explain.  Do you think that women philosophize in a different way or about different things than men do?  Explain.