Philosophy of Human Nature - Major Research Questions
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Here are some of the major inquiries we've undertaken this semester:
- What is Real?
- What is Love?
- What is Knowledge?
- Are there different kinds of knowledge?
- How many kinds of things are there?
- Is the mind the brain?
- Are some pervasive forms of human suffering avoidable?
- Is suffering a product of ignorance?
- What is the basis of my identity?
- How should I adjust my responses to things based on my understanding of them?
- What is the role of pleasure in the good life?
- Do I have free will?
- Is morality possible if determinism is true?
- What sort of knowledge does faith involve?
- Can you prove that God exists?
- How do religions work?
- What is the relationship between a revealed truth and the culture and metaphysics of the time of its revelation?
- Should religions comply with contemporary views about rights and equality of opportunity?
- How much about religious belief and behavior can be modeled within a evolutionary/psychological framework?
- What are the limits of human nature?