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Please answer all three questions using the assigned reading materials and your own examples to illustrate. Your answer to each question should be approximately one page in length. Quotations from Classics of Western Philosophy may be noted parenthetically after each quote. Any outside sources should be footnoted and listed in a bibliography.
1. Hume argues that reason does not tell us that something is morally wrong (pp. 918-922). When we see and unkind act, for example, the empirical observation produces a bad feeling in us. It is this feeling, according to Hume’s ethical theory, that we judge when we say that the action is “wrong.” Summarize Kant’s argument concerning false promises (p. 1128). Using an example of your own to illustrate, explain how Kant’s categorical imperative answers Hume.
2. Kierkegaard says, “The way of objective reflection makes the subject accidental, and thereby transforms existence into something indifferent, something vanishing” (p. 1179). What is Kierkegaard’s objection to the objective way of knowing? Explain and illustrate with an example of your own.
[On page 1183, Kierkegaard discusses the “Sunday morning Christian” and the young girl who is happy in spite of having no proof. Although I want you to use an example of your own, your example should illustrate Kierkegaard’s point regarding commitment and passion in the absence of proof.]
3. Nietzsche says, “With Socrates, Greek taste takes a turn in favor of dialectic. What is actually happening there? Primarily, a noble taste is thereby defeated; with dialectic, the rabble rises to the top” (“The Problem of Socrates,” sec. 5, p. 1230). What does Nietzsche mean by “rabble” and “noble?” How are these expressions of will to power and ressentiment? (Be sure to illustrate the concept of resentment with an example).