How Socrates conceives of justice in the soul in the Republic

. Explain how Socrates conceives of justice in the soul in the Republic. Why does Socrates believe that a just person would not want to use the Ring of Gyges to commit injustice? Why does he believe that it would not be in the just person’s interest to do so? 2. Explain Cartesian Substance Dualism and the interaction problem it faces. Present at least one of the arguments for dualism we considered throughout the course of the quarter. 3. Explain the memory criterion of personal identity. Present at least one of the objections that has been made against this theory. 4. Explain soft determinism (also known as compatibilism) in the free will debate. How do soft determinists conceive of freedom of the will? How is this conception of freedom supposed to be consistent with causal determinism? Section II: Long Answer Write an essay on one of the following questions. (60 points) 1. Choose one of the arguments for the existence of God we discussed this quarter—one of Aquinas’s five ways, or one of the arguments Descartes’s discusses in the Meditations—and show why it is unsound. Then suggest ways in which the argument might be improved in order to meet these objections. 2. Explain the skeptical problems that Descartes presents in Meditations I and II involving the dreaming argument and the demon argument. Then suggest ways in which these problems might be solved. That is, explain how it is that we can know our senses are reliable, that the external world exists, that it is more-or-less as it appears to be, etc.      

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