Choose one of the following options. Be sure to use the Resource assigned.
Resource:
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/humn/humn100/2242/week-2/humn-100-required-resource-set–1–introduction-to-western-philo.html
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/humn/humn100/2242/week-2/humn-100-required-resource-set–2–what-is-philosophy-.html
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/humn/humn100/2242/week-2/humn-100-required-resource-set–3–three-philosophical-tradition.html
Discussion Instructions:
Option #1: Truth, Belief and Knowledge
Examine how a philosopher challenges your assumptions about truth, belief, or knowledge by doing the following:
1. Explain how the philosopher in the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource challenges your assumptions about truth, belief, or knowledge?
2. Identify one argument or thing they say that challenges or questions your assumptions. Include a quote from the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource in your discussion.
3. Define epistemology in your own words and discuss what you learned by examining the epistemology of this philosopher.
Make sure to:
* Use what you have learned in the Required Readings about World Philosophy, your own cultural background, experiences, judgments and reasoning to answer these questions.
* Use at least one quote from this week’s Required Learning Resources, and one from the assigned Gateway resource in your answer. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
* Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Option #2: Ethics
Examine how a philosopher challenges your assumptions about ethics by doing the following:
1. Explain how the philosopher in the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource challenge your assumptions about what’s right and what’s wrong.
2. Identify one argument or thing they say that challenges or questions your assumptions. Include a quote from the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource in your discussion.
3. Discuss what you learned by examining the ethics of the philosopher?
Make sure to:
* Use what you have learned in the Required Readings about World Philosophy, your own cultural background, experiences, judgments and reasoning to answer these questions.
* Use at least one quote from this week’s Required Learning Resources, and one from the assigned Gateway resource in your answer. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
* Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Option #3: Reality
Examine how a philosopher challenges your assumptions about reality by doing the following:
1. Explain how the philosopher in the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource challenges your assumptions about what’s real.
2. Identify one argument or thing they say that challenges or questions your assumptions. Include a quote from the assigned Gateway into Philosophy resource in your discussion.
3. Discuss what you learned by examining the metaphysics of the philosopher?
Make sure to:
* Use what you have learned in the Required Readings about World Philosophy, your own cultural background, experiences, judgments and reasoning to answer these questions.
* Use at least one quote from this week’s Required Learning Resources, and one from the assigned Gateway resource in your answer Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
* Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
