Analyze the section from the bhagavad-gita on reincarnation

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You need help with the 16 philosophy questions that I have and the answers are found in a book called "Philosophical Traditions" and i don't have that book.

Directions: On page 361 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer questions 1 and 3 only. Make sure your answer is complete. Points are as follows:

1. Analyze the Platonic and Judeo - Christian views on life after death. Which view is more plausible? Explain your answer.

3. Analyze the section from the Bhagavad-Gita on reincarnation. What is Karifia? What are the arguments for reincarnation? What are the objections to it?

On page 371 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer guegions 2 and 3 only. Make sure your answer is complete. Questions are printed below.

2. Go over the main arguments for determinism. How strong are they? What are the chief problems?

3. Assess Darrow's defense of Leopold and Loeb. Do you think that his argument is sound? How would an opponent challenge it?

on page .392 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to Rs n , , 4,stigasisintlgobt. Make sure your answer is complete.

1. Evaluate the three theories discussed in these last three chapters. Which seem the most plausible to you, and why?

4. Discuss the problem of punishment? How would a determinist a libertarian and a comoatibilist defend the practice of punishing criminals?

Directions: On page 436 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer questions 3, 4 and 5 only. Make sure your answers are complete and print clearly or type them. All three questions are worth 10 points each. Total points = 30. Questions are below.

3. Can you separate the anthropological claim of cultural relativism (different cultures have different moral principles) from ethical relativism (there are no universally valid moral principles)? Explain.

4. Explain the difference between moral absolutism and moral objectivism. What are prima fade moral principles or duties?

5. What are the main arguments for moral objectivism? Assess its merits.

Directions: On page 512 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer questions 3 and 4 only. Make sure your answers are complete and clearly print or type them. Both questions are worth 10 points each. Total points = 20. Questions are below.

3. In your judgment, how important is religion for a meaningful life? How would a secularist respond to the claims made In favor of religion's ability to procure added meaning in life? Do you think that religion really does provide added meaning to life?

4. Karl Marx said that religion was the opium of the people. (Today, the metaphor might better be changed to 'cocaine' or 'crack.') It deludes them into thinking that all will be well with the world, leading to passive acceptance of evil and injustice. is there some truth in Marx's dictum? How would a theist respond to this?

Ckirgains: On page 532 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer questions 3 and 4 only. Make sure your answers are complete and clearly print or type them. Both questions are worth lapoints each. Total points = 20. Questions are below.

1. What are the essential features of existentialism? Describe the first two.

4. What gives you meaning in life? Kierkegaard defined subiective truth as that for which you are willing to live and die. What are you willing to live and die for?

Directions: On page 550 in your text, Philosophical Traditions, you are to answer questions 4, 5 and ¢ only. Make sure your answers are complete and clearly print or type them. All three questions are worth 10 points each. Total points = 30. Questions are below.

4. Analyze Nietzsche's idea of master-slave morality. Does it disturb you, or do you find some truth in it (even though Nietzsche says there is no truth, only perspectives)?

5. Analyze Nietzsche's discussion on there not being any truth, only interpretations. What problem do you see with this passage?

6. Do you agree with the existentialists, especially Sartre, that we are 'condemned to freedom?' Are we responsible for what we do with our lives, or do you chance and circumstances have a lot more to do with what we become than the existentialists assert?

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