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Explain the motivations and challenges of Virtue Ethics

Whilst the details and lines of argument of an answer can vary, a good attempt would cover some of the following points: An overview of virtue ethics, explaining that virtue ethics in all its forms comes ...

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What is a Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God?

Generally speaking, we can think of arguments for the existence of God as falling under two main categories: cosmological and teleological (sometimes also called fine-tuning). Both sorts of argument appea...

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What is the Gettier Problem for the Tripartite Account of Knowledge?

The Gettier Problem was popularised by Edmund Gettier's 1963 paper and is best expressed as the fact that it is possible to offer counterexamples to the tripartite account of knowledge. As always in philo...

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Outline the argument from illusion against direct realism

According to direct realism, we perceive objects in the external world directly. This is contrasted with indirect realism, which holds that the immediate objects of perception are mental representations o...

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Explain the ontological argument

Our concept of God is that of a being greater than which none can be imagined. Since we are able to imagine God at all, then we can see the God exists as an idea in the mind. However, it seems that a thin...

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