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Question 1

8. Explain Schopenhauer’s view of human nature

Answer 1

Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if only in the business of taming and restraining him which we call civilization. Hence it is that we are terrified if now and then his nature breaks out.

Question 2

Explain Sartre’s quote ‘existence precedes essence’

Answer 2

It’s a philosophical idea that suggests that a person’s essence, or nature, is not predetermined at birth but rather shaped by one’s experiences and actions.

Question 3

Explain the Parmenides’ argument about nothingness in three sentences?

Answer 3

We can neither speak nor think about nothing, because there is literally nothing to speak or think about!

Question 4

Explain two arguments against Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument?

Answer 4

“If everything has a cause, then of course the universe has a cause – and that cause may be God. But, if everything has a cause, then what caused God?”