Philosophical Reflection Essay
Consider the three following questions:
What is knowledge?
What is reality made of?
What is the good life and how ought to live it?
Identify which of the above questions is associated with each branch of philosophy.
Explain how Socrates would answer the question “What is knowledge?” or how Epictetus would answer the question “What is the good life?”
What does it mean to think philosophically? How can thinking philosophically help me in my own life?
What impact do the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers have on my own views and opinions?
Then, based on these reflections, you should give your own answer to whichever of the three questions from Part I you chose to focus on, using cited examples from the course to support your answer. (“What is knowledge?”; “What is reality?”; “What is the good life?”)
Part II of this assignment should be approximately 1-2 pages (300-600 words). You should write at least one paragraph for each of the three prompts listed above.
“What is the good life and how ought to live it?” while not saying much about knowledge or reality. Plato and Aristotle wrote a great deal about all three questions.
