Discussion board Q&As week 4

WEEK FOUR DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Please read the guidelines for completing this assignment here: 

Guidelines for Q&A Discussion and Critical Comment Forums . 

For your Week Two Q&A Discussion and Critical Comments posts, you are asked to do the following:

1) Q&A: Compose and answer two original questions based on the Week FOUR required readings (other than Russell). Choose one author from each of the following groups of philosophers for each Q&A:

Group 1: Kierkegaard

Group 2: Nietzsche

Please note that each Q&A post, including the question but not any citations, should be around 350-500 words, and posts with fewer than 250 words will not receive any credit. Also remember to proofread your work for stylistic, grammatical, and spelling errors before submission.

Each one of your two Q&A Discussion threads should be formatted as follows (remember...these are two separate threads):

First thread:

My first question is:  

My answer to this question is:

Second thread:

My second question is: 

My answer to this question is: 

REQUIRED READING

Russell, 

The Problems of Philosophy  : Chapters V-VIII [The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell: pp. 25-47]. The entire work can be found online here:  Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy .

Aristotle, 

· God Arguments: 

Four Classical Arguments for God's Existence  ; Brief Outline: 

Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God  .

. Study Guide: 

"Critics of Religion" (PowerPoint slide lecture).

· James, 

"The Will to Believe"  (entire). [Read the originally published article here: William James, "

The Will to Believe.  "]

. Study Guide: 

Brief Outline of James's "Will to Believe." .

. Study Guide: Read the original 1877 article to which James is responding in "The Will to Believe," entitled, 

"The Ethics of Belief, " by William Clifford.

· Kierkegaard,

 Fear and Trembling  (entire), pp. 1-61.

. Study Guide: 

Themes, Arguments, and Ideas in Kierkegaard's Writings (from SparkNotes).

· Nietzsche,  

Beyond Good and Evil  , Preface, Parts 1, 2, & 3: [§1-62] pp. 3-57.

. Study Guide: 

SparkNotes on Beyond Good and Evil . (Note: These notes cover the entire book; the section that relates to your specific assignment can be found on pp. 1-12; these notes will be very helpful in understanding Nietzsche's thinking, especially for those new to his work.).

. Recent Interview with Nietzsche scholar, Hugo Drochon: "

What Nietzsche's Philosophy Can Tell Us about Why Brexit and Trump Won ."

For general research on any philosophical topic, theme, or major philosopher, here are two excellent online sources:

· Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

· Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy