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Core Theme

Contemporary Social Issues

What is a Human Being?

Possible Replies

Philosophical Concept or Issue

Well, there are lots of ways of answering this question.

  • Rational or Animal
  • Freewill or Determined
  • Meaningful or Without Purpose
  • Moral or Amoral
  • Man's Nature?
  • Do we have Freewill
  • Do we have a Purpose
  • Morality

As this is Philosophy we are interested in only some of the possible answers.

The Core Theme works as an introduction to philosophical issues in general and though the main question: What is a Human Being?

seems quite specific, it is in fact very broad, and has many, many possible philosophical replies.

  • Man is a featherless biped
  • A primate
  • A rational creature
  • Made in the image of God

The Core Theme is an invitation to pick a philosophical theme that attempts to answer the question - What is a human being? You will be expected to write approximately 800 words. Your answer needs to identify a philosophical concept or philosophical issue and explore two different possible philosophical replies to the philosophical issue or concept.

Try this little exercise

Imagine what it would be like to live in a world before civilization, a time without organised society at all. A 'State of Nature'. What do you imagine life would be like and how do you think Man is, in this 'state of nature'?

Hobbes vs Locke

Thomas Hobbes in his most famous work, The Levithan outlines a view of what Man would be like in a 'state of nature'. For Hobbes, Man's life would be "short, nasty and brutish" a "war of all against all"

or

Are we beasts?

Are we violent?

Do we live by desire alone?

What is our nature?

Are we care free?

Are we passive?

Do we share?

What is our nature?

John Locke envisages a world of perfect freedom

In the story Lord of the Flies by William Golding, young boys are crash landed onto a deserted island. What follows is a disintegration into two broad camps. One wants to hold on to order and civilising manners of their former lives. The other is descending into a more primal and brutal mindset.

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Hobbes and Locke

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Philosophy of Art

Problems and Theories of Ethics

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