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Third Exam

Third Exam. Take-Home. Due April 21st; your grade declines one grade level for each day late. If you use any web source, use quote marks and list citation; presentation as your own writing of a web source or a published book or article will get an F for the course (remember how easy it is to search the web). Retain a copy of your paper and be prepared to explain your answers in an oral examination.

Instructions: Type your paper and write no more than 2,000 words in toto. Answer questions 1 and 2 and three other questions. Five in all.

1. Describe how the 16th and 17th century changes in Europe and the growth of modern science and technology posed problems to traditional European beliefs about God, immortality, and morality (what change did the battle of Lepanto solidify?). Describe the steps in doubt taken in Descartes= Meditations and the conclusions Descartes derives from the structure of his doubts. How do these conclusions resolve the problems mentioned in the first sentence? How would La Mettrie resolve these problems?

2. What in general distinguishes Rationalists such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz from Empiricist such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Bishop Berkeley, and David Hume (also, tell us how each of these Empiricists differed from eachother). What recent results in cognitive science over the last few decades have supported some of the rationalist's views about language and morality?

3. What are the characteristic views and activities of the philosophes such as Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Maupertius, La Mettrie, etc.? What ancient philosopher shared what views with them.? What did the philosophes think of England and John Locke?

4. What argument did Leibniz give to clai...

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