Discussion board Q&As

WEEK THREE 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 three 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 THREE required readings (other than Russell). Choose one author from each of the following groups of philosophers for each Q&A:

Group 1: Aristotle or Mill

Group 2: Sartre

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, 

The Nicomachean Ethics  , Book I, Chapters 5-7, pp.15-21; Book II, Chapters 1-8, pp. 34-49.

. Study Guide: "

Aristotle on Happiness ", retrieved from http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/aristotle/

Kant, 

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals  , Chapter 2, pp. 14-41.

. Study Guide:"

A Priori Truths ": You may find the information here helpful in arriving at a deeper understanding of Kant's ideas. 

· Mill,  

Utilitarianism  , Chapter 2, pp. 4-18.

Sartre,“

Existentialism Is a Humanism  ” (entire), pp. 1-18.

· Study Guide: 

Summary of Sartre's Terminology

. For more about Sartre's concept of "bad faith," read this chapter from Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings, Ed. Stephen Priest:  

Sartre on Bad Faith

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