Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Some Thoughts to Help You

Helpful guidelines

If you are answering question #1
go to the essay page, then go to 50 excellent essays (look at both Table 1 and Table 2), and look for the essays on Question 6 "Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future."
You could also look at Question 7, “Moral wisdom seems to be as little connected to knowledge of ethical theory as playing good tennis is to knowledge of physics” . To what extent should our actions be guided by our theories in ethics and elsewhere?
You could also look at Question 2. "Are reason and emotion equally necessary in justifying moral decisions?"

If you are answering question #3:
go to the essay page, then go to 50 excellent essays (look at both Table 1 and Table 2) and look for the essays on Question 1.  “Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house” (Henri PoincarĂ©). Discuss in relation to science and at least one other area of knowledge.

If you are answering question #4:
Go to the essay page, then go to 50 excellent essays (look at both Table 1 and Table 2) and look for the essays on Question 3. “History is always on the move, slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.” Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other area of knowledge.

If you are answering question #5:
Go to the essay page, then go to 50 excellent essays (look at both Table 1 and Table 2) and look for the essays on Question 3. “History is always on the move, slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.” Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other area of knowledge.
go to the essay page, then go to 50 excellent essays (look at both Table 1 and Table 2), and look for the essays on Question 6 "Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future."