Category: Philosophy

This week we learned about universal love or agape. A form of selfless love expressed to mankind or one’s community. This form of love is expressed to another with no intention of receiving something in return. Over the past several weeks, you considered several options to express agape or meaningful love through service. For this essay, select two meaningful expressions of love through service from the list below and complete them this week. Write a thoughtful essay describing which choices you selected, and how selfless love and service were expressed in your actions. Utilize 2 academic resources in your writing to discuss how mindful love through service connects to agape or universal love. In your conclusion, discuss how you plan to practice or cultivate this form of love in your life in the future.

Examples:

Engage in a meaningful action for humankind – this can be volunteering at a nonprofit, collecting trash in your local neighborhood, donating clothes or food to those in need, etc.

Complete a random act of kindness for a stranger – this can be paying it forward by buying a cup of coffee at the local Starbucks, offering a generous tip at a local store, cutting your neighbors lawn, assisting someone with carrying their groceries, or cleaning up a strangers trash.

Offer support to someone in need – whether this is through dedicated attention and listening, the lending of your skills or talents, or strengthened encouragement with the intention of receiving nothing in return. Connect with someone who might need unconditional love, you can do this through a phone call, a text message, or a hand written note.

Step away from gossip or judgement in a situation that you are faced with – instead offer forgiveness to someone who needs it, offer them understanding and encouragement (this could be someone you know or don’t know).

This essay should be greater than 2 – 3 pages in APA 7th edition formatting. Be sure to structure this paper like an academic essay (include an introduction and conclusion). Essay should contain a Title Page in APA style. APA format uses 12 pt and Times New Roman font. Create a citation every time you use someone else’s words, research results, or ideas in the body of the paper. Your Essay must include a Reference Page

Submit your journal entry on a Microsoft Word or PDF document. This entry should be at least two paragraphs of written information. A paragraph is 6-8 sentences of content.

After reviewing the weekly readings, definitions, and graphics on agape, we’ve discovered that this is the highest expression and form of love. We also learned that it is this type of love that contributes to love for all people and mankind. Find a quote, poem, or short reading that demonstrates this form of love to you. What does this form of love mean to you? How is agape present in your life? Perhaps this is an area of love that is not yet existent in your life, but an area in which you hope to grow. If so, expand on your quote, poem, or short reading choice that represents this form of love and what it means to you. How do you hope to adopt and practice this form of love in the future?

Summary of Task:

Include a Reference Page to outside resources (quotes, readings, or poems used).

Remember this assignment should be based on the specific form of love we explored in the class readings this week

Choose an example that demonstrates this form of love to you.

Be specific – what does this form of love mean to you and how is this example a form of this love? Refer back to what we’ve read this week to demonstrate your understanding of this form of love.

How is this form of love present in your life and how does this apply to your experience

Compare and contrast the presentation of Socrates found in Aristophanes Clouds and Platos Apology. In what ways are these depictions of Socrates similar to one another, and in what ways are they different? What exactly is philosophy concerned with in each case? Is there overlap between these two presentations of Socrates philosophizing, or do they wholly differ? How, in each case, do Aristophanes and Plato situate Socrates in relation to Athenian political life? Do you find one account of Socrates to be more compelling than the other? In your essay, you are welcome to explore any of these texts various themes that you believe to be relevant to your argument. You must, however, provide specific references to the passages in question. (For Aristophanes, citations should refer to line number; for Plato, citations should refer to Stephanus number.)

Articulate what you think is the most persuasive of Aquinas’ 5 reasons for the existence of God.

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PHIL 1100: Meaning of Life. first year undergraduate elective Term Paper: Fall 2025, weight: 25% Due: by 11:59 pm on March 30th through the turnitin.com link on the eclass page For information on submission, late penalties and other policies, see the syllabus. In a 5-7 page typed, double-spaced essay (12 pt. font), answer 1 of the following 3 questions. In all cases, presume that youre seeking both to explain the arguments from which the problem arises to a general reader, and to convince a skeptical reader that your take on it is correct. Socrates argues that the individual owes a debt to the state within which they were raised, regardless of the perceived injustices they endure within it. While we certainly have the right to petition or even protest the state, he seems to preclude not just open rebellion or revolution, but even the kinds of civil disobedience which were instrumental in securing many of the rights we now take for granted. Is Socrates right that, regardless of the injustice embodied in the state, obedience (if never complete conformity) is required of the citizen? Or is disobedience justified, or even required, in the face of state injustice? After presenting Socrates arguments in favor of obedience to the State, defend your take on the problem raised by the question.

Reflect on what you have learned about yourself personally through studying psychology. For example, you might want to focus on your personality, the contribution that your social environment has played in shaping you, the influence of your parents (genetics and socialization), the role that faith (identification or introjection) contributes to your sense of self, the interaction of your physical body and your mental and emotional wellbeing, and your embodiment as a sensing, perceiving, thinking, and remembering being. These are merely some suggestions of where you might want to go with this culminating reflection (minimum 300 words).