philosophy
midterms fuck yeah!
1) What inner conditions were needed for a prisoner to survive?
All the prisoners who survived were able to find a meaning or a purpose to their existence. (Ex. A child, a spouse, or a project, their life’s work)
a) What, according to Frankl, is the meaning of life?
2) What is the “will to meaning”?
a) What is the “essence of existence”?
3) What are the 3 ways of finding meaning in life?
a) Is there an ultimate answer to the meaning of human suffering?
4) Why, according to Frankl, is the pursuit of happiness self-defeating?
Explain. Do you agree? Why or why not?
5) What is the relation between the Platonic Forms and the empirical world?
a) Explain what the Forms are.
6) What were the views of the Sophists and how were they opposed to those of
Socrates? Discuss.
7) How did Aristotle counter Plato’s theory of Ideas with his doctrine of categories?
a) What is the relationship between a “substance” and its “qualities”?
1) What inner conditions were needed for a prisoner to survive?
All the prisoners who survived were able to find a meaning or a purpose to their existence. (Ex. A child, a spouse, or a project, their life’s work)
a) What, according to Frankl, is the meaning of life?
2) What is the “will to meaning”?
a) What is the “essence of existence”?
3) What are the 3 ways of finding meaning in life?
a) Is there an ultimate answer to the meaning of human suffering?
4) Why, according to Frankl, is the pursuit of happiness self-defeating?
Explain. Do you agree? Why or why not?
5) What is the relation between the Platonic Forms and the empirical world?
a) Explain what the Forms are.
6) What were the views of the Sophists and how were they opposed to those of
Socrates? Discuss.
7) How did Aristotle counter Plato’s theory of Ideas with his doctrine of categories?
a) What is the relationship between a “substance” and its “qualities”?