By Wednesday, December 26, 2012, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. You should quote or paraphrase from specific pages in the course text to support your claims about philosophical ideas and concepts, using correct APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates and the facilitator as early in the week as possible. Address the following in a three-page paper: Identify a film, book, television show, or other form of media/art that involves characters/narrators reflecting upon the nature of identity and the self. Cite the media using correct APA citation. Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s readings. For example, you might discuss rationalism, empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from the primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course text and online lectures. Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or freedom from this week’s readings and lectures. You may want to consider the following questions while choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the media: Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to know themselves and the world around them? Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and how they know what they know? To what extent do the following factors impact their sense of self: emotions, past experiences, rationality, other people, race, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and religion? Are they conscious of themselves as having a “self?” By Wednesday, December 26, 2012, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. You should quote or paraphrase from specific pages in the course text to support your claims about phi losophical ideas and concepts, using correct APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates and the facilitator as early in the week as possible. Address the following in a three - page paper: Identify a film, book, television show, or oth er form of media/art that involves characters/narrators reflecting upon the nature of identity and the self. Cite the media using correct APA citation. Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s readings. For example, you might discuss ratio nalism, empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from the primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course text and online lectures. Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or f reedom from this week’s readings and lectures. You may want to consider the following questions while choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the media: Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to know themselves and the world around them? Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and ...

1. By Wednesday, December 26, 2012, respond to the assigned
discussion questions and submit your responses to the
appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. You should quote or
paraphrase from specific pages in the course text to support
your claims about philosophical ideas and concepts, using
correct APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your
classmates and the facilitator as early in the week as possible.
Address the following in a three-page paper:
Identify a film, book, television show, or other form of
media/art that involves characters/narrators reflecting upon the
nature of identity and the self. Cite the media using correct
APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s
readings. For example, you might discuss rationalism,
empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from the primary
text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary
sources such as the course text and online lectures.
Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or
freedom from this week’s readings and lectures.
You may want to consider the following questions while
choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the media:
Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to
know themselves and the world around them?
Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and
how they know what they know?
To what extent do the following factors impact their sense of
self: emotions, past experiences, rationality, other people, race,
gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and religion?
Are they conscious of themselves as having a “self?”
By Wednesday, December 26, 2012, respond to the assigned
discussion questions and submit your

2. responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. You
should quote or paraphrase from specific
pages in the course text to support your claims about phi
losophical ideas and concepts, using correct
APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your
classmates and the facilitator as early in the week
as possible.
Address the following in a three
-
page paper:
Identify a film, book, television show, or oth
er form of media/art that involves characters/narrators
reflecting upon the nature of identity and the self. Cite the
media using correct APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s
readings. For example, you might discuss
ratio
nalism, empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from the
primary text selections in the chapter
as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course
text and online lectures.
Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or
f
reedom from this week’s readings and
lectures.
You may want to consider the following questions while
choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the
media:

3. Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to
know themselves and the world around
them?
Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and
how they know what they know?
To what extent do the following factors impact their sense of
self: emotions, past experiences,
rationality, other people, race, gender, socio
-
economic st
atus, ethnicity, and religion?
Are they conscious of themselves as having a “self?”
By Wednesday, December 26, 2012, respond to the assigned
discussion questions and submit your
responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. You
should quote or paraphrase from specific
pages in the course text to support your claims about
philosophical ideas and concepts, using correct
APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your
classmates and the facilitator as early in the week
as possible.
Address the following in a three-page paper:
Identify a film, book, television show, or other form of
media/art that involves characters/narrators
reflecting upon the nature of identity and the self. Cite the
media using correct APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s
readings. For example, you might discuss

4. rationalism, empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from
the primary text selections in the chapter
as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course
text and online lectures.
Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or
freedom from this week’s readings and
lectures.
You may want to consider the following questions while
choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the
media:
Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to
know themselves and the world around
them?
Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and
how they know what they know?
To what extent do the following factors impact their sense of
self: emotions, past experiences,
rationality, other people, race, gender, socio-economic status,
ethnicity, and religion?
Are they conscious of themselves as having a “self?”
For Week 2, address the following in a three-page paper:
Identify a current event or contemporary social issue that
involves human freedom. Your issue must be broad enough to
sustain deep philosophical analysis and must have relevance to
your community. A good choice of issue is one that (1) involves
a decision that must be made, (2) includes with various
available options about which reasonable minds can disagree,
(3) concretely affects people’s lives, and (4) might be
influenced by external and internal factors such as social norms,
oppression, personal beliefs, socially-imposed constraints (such
as laws), and physical limitations. Issues that only affect a few
people or have only a minor impact are probably too narrow.
Issues that you are not open to examining with an open mind
will also not work well for this assignment. For some topic

5. suggestions, you might want to browse some recent episodes of
PBS’s Frontline series or the website of a reputable news
organization.
Identify at least two news articles on your topic located using
the South University Online Library and/or reputable news
outlets. Make sure that the articles you choose present at least
two different perspectives on the issue or event you choose and
include information that you can use to develop your arguments
and analysis. If you cannot locate two news articles on your
topic, or if all of the articles share the same perspective, you
should choose another topic. You should cite the two articles
using correct APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of human freedom from your
assigned readings. Cite support from the primary text selections
in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary sources such as
the course text and online lectures.
Analyze the issue using a theory of human freedom.
Contrast this analysis with the approach a second theory would
take. For instance, you might contrast traditional determinism
with compatibalism, or indeterminism and existentialism.
Submit your assignment in the W2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by
Saturday, December 29, 2012.
For Week 2, address the following in a three
-
page paper:
Identify a current event or contemporary social issue that
involves human freedom. Your issue must be
broad enough to sustain deep philosophical analysis and must
have relevance to
your community. A
good choice of issue is one that (1) involves a decision that

6. must be made, (2) includes with various
available options about which reasonable minds can disagree,
(3) concretely affects people’s lives, and
(4) might be influenced by exter
nal and internal factors such as social norms, oppression,
personal
beliefs, socially
-
imposed constraints (such as laws), and physical limitations.
Issues that only affect a few
people or have only a minor impact are probably too narrow.
Issues that you ar
e not open to examining
with an open mind will also not work well for this assignment.
For some topic suggestions, you might
want to browse some recent episodes of PBS’s Frontline series
or the website of a reputable news
organization.
Identify at least t
wo news articles on your topic located using the South
University Online Library and/or
reputable news outlets. Make sure that the articles you choose
present at least two different
perspectives on the issue or event you choose and include
information that
you can use to develop your
arguments and analysis. If you cannot locate two news articles
on your topic, or if all of the articles share
the same perspective, you should choose another topic. You
should cite the two articles using correct
APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of human freedom from your
assigned readings. Cite support from the

7. primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative
secondary sources such as the course text
and online lectures.
Analyze the issue using a theory
of human freedom.
Contrast this analysis with the approach a second theory would
take. For instance, you might contrast
traditional determinism with compatibalism, or indeterminism
and existentialism.
Submit your assignment in the W2: Assignment 2 Drop
box by Saturday, December 29, 2012.
For Week 2, address the following in a three-page paper:
Identify a current event or contemporary social issue that
involves human freedom. Your issue must be
broad enough to sustain deep philosophical analysis and must
have relevance to your community. A
good choice of issue is one that (1) involves a decision that
must be made, (2) includes with various
available options about which reasonable minds can disagree,
(3) concretely affects people’s lives, and
(4) might be influenced by external and internal factors such as
social norms, oppression, personal
beliefs, socially-imposed constraints (such as laws), and
physical limitations. Issues that only affect a few
people or have only a minor impact are probably too narrow.
Issues that you are not open to examining
with an open mind will also not work well for this assignment.
For some topic suggestions, you might

8. want to browse some recent episodes of PBS’s Frontline series
or the website of a reputable news
organization.
Identify at least two news articles on your topic located using
the South University Online Library and/or
reputable news outlets. Make sure that the articles you choose
present at least two different
perspectives on the issue or event you choose and include
information that you can use to develop your
arguments and analysis. If you cannot locate two news articles
on your topic, or if all of the articles share
the same perspective, you should choose another topic. You
should cite the two articles using correct
APA citation.
Explain at least one theory of human freedom from your
assigned readings. Cite support from the
primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative
secondary sources such as the course text
and online lectures.
Analyze the issue using a theory of human freedom.
Contrast this analysis with the approach a second theory would
take. For instance, you might contrast
traditional determinism with compatibalism, or indeterminism
and existentialism.
Submit your assignment in the W2: Assignment 2 Dropbox by
Saturday, December 29, 2012.