Part A:

I. Introduction:

A. Crucial Issue: What is the bets way of looking at the world: Objectivity or Subjectivity?

1. Objective arguments:

a. Plato on the Senses and how they deceive us.

b. Galileo and the Scientific Revolution on Internal natures and scientific method.

2. Subjective arguments:

a. Descartes’s Cogito.

b. Kant on the Senses and Reason

B. Thesis statement: Your view of Human Nature:

1. How are mind and body related?

2. Does God or something that transcends Nature exist?

3. Are we Islands of subjectivity?

II. Objection and reply: (at least one round for each of the three questions)

A. Most important objection to your view of Mind-Body and your reply and discussion

B.  Most important objection to your view of God’s existence and your reply and discussion

C. Most important objection to your view of whether we are islands of Subjectivity and your reply and discussion

Part B.

I. General Introduction to Problem of meaning of life: Crucial Issue: Can Humans find meaning in a world that is temporary and vulnerable to change?

A. Plato on itches and hunger. The problem of Evil. Sartre on Bad Faith.

B. Christian view of free will and the virtues. Meaning comes from or is revealed by the transformative power of free will.

II. Thesis and application of Part A to your choice (1-4): Say which question you are choosing and how the problem above arises in this question and what implications your views in A have for it.

III. Objection and Reply: Consider the most important objection to your position and your reply and discussion.