Discussion Post 1 Directions: Clearly define your terms and present arguments, not mere opinions or assertions, to defend your point of view. Utilize the text and point to specific examples and passages when appropriate.
Prompt 1: Choose one element or argument from this week’s readings and lesson on the Transcendental Analytic, that you felt you understood well and explain it. Then, choose an element from the week that you did not understand and pose a question.
Understood well: Transcendental Analytic
Did not understand well: Quid Juris and Quid Facti
Discussion Post 2 Directions: Using books 4 and 5 of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, do you feel his positions on the difference between fate and providence help explain how God’s foreknowledge can be reconciled with free will. Do you see the roots of any Greek or Roman philosophy in what he wrote? [Zagzebski’s material may be useful here]
Discussion Post 1 Directions: Clearly define your terms and present arguments, not mere opinions or assertions, to defend your point of view. Utilize the text and point to specific examples and passages when appropriate.
Prompt 1: Choose one element or argument from this week’s readings and lesson on the Transcendental Analytic, that you felt you understood well and explain it. Then, choose an element from the week that you did not understand and pose a question.
Understood well: Transcendental Analytic
Did not understand well: Quid Juris and Quid Facti
Discussion Post 2 Directions: Using books 4 and 5 of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, do you feel his positions on the difference between fate and providence help explain how God’s foreknowledge can be reconciled with free will. Do you see the roots of any Greek or Roman philosophy in what he wrote? [Zagzebski’s material may be useful here]
Discussion Post 1 Directions: Clearly define your terms and present arguments, not mere opinions or assertions, to defend your point of view. Utilize the text and point to specific examples and passages when appropriate.
Prompt 1: Choose one element or argument from this week’s readings and lesson on the Transcendental Analytic, that you felt you understood well and explain it. Then, choose an element from the week that you did not understand and pose a question.
Understood well: Transcendental Analytic
Did not understand well: Quid Juris and Quid Facti
Discussion Post 2 Directions: Using books 4 and 5 of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, do you feel his positions on the difference between fate and providence help explain how God’s foreknowledge can be reconciled with free will. Do you see the roots of any Greek or Roman philosophy in what he wrote? [Zagzebski’s material may be useful here]