Help! Need philosophical issues for HUGE paper!?

Question

I have to start writing my term paper for my philosophy class. It is not an OPINION paper. It must be about a philosophical issue that I try to resolve. It has to be 12 pages long. I can't even think of philosophical issues let alone one that I can write 12 pages on. Please give me a list of issues that you recommend writing about. The more...the better. Thanks much.

Answer 1

what level philosophy class? who are you reading? we need some kind of direction here! give me some parameters and i'll make some suggestions, but i can't help if this is all you tell me

beware, if i were you prof and you wrote any almost any of the suggestions posted so far, i'd fail you straight up... lol, no offense to the other posters, but most of those just aren't philosophy topics for a student's term paper.

i'll be happy to check back here later sunday afternoon -- if you give some more detail, i'll edit this reply with some suggestions or some direction for getting suggestions

Answer 2

Here are some suggestions:

1. The Identity and Nature of the Three Classical Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

2. Comparison and Contrast of Descartes and Anselm: Ontological Argument and So-Called Proofs of God's Existence.

3. What is Virtue and Can Human's Be Virtuous?: Insights from Aristotle and Alaisdair MacIntyre.

4. The Identity and Nature of Evil in the Thought of Augustine.

5. If there is a God, what might God be?: Insights from Anselm and Aquinas.

6. What is a Soul-- and Is Such a Conception Rational?: Insights from Plato and Aristotle.

7. The Relationship of the Mind and Body in Plato and Descartes: Similarities and Differences.

Good luck!

Answer 3

definition of philosophy from the Penguin dictionary of psychology.
"In that most hackneyed of phrases,"the search for the truth." There are various ways to conduct this search that probably belongs within this discipline and various domains of nature into which it has, over the millennia, led. The most convenient division is to break philosophy into two broad sub disciplines, epistemology and metaphysics. The former encompasses efforts to understand the origins, nature, and the limits of thought and human knowledge, the latter includes similar exercises into the ultimate reality of existence. Other prominent branches are aesthetics, ethics and logic"

If i had to do a paper on that ... i think i would run into trouble staying under the word count

Answer 4

How about doing a comparison with the past and the present.

For example, the French revolution and its cause - extreme poverty drove the poor masses to overthrow the aristocracy.

In today's world, great masses world wide languish in poverty, is this part reason for today's violent and troubled world?

that should give a page or two? Also, there must be garbs of material readily available to give you the info for your report?

Answer 5

I feel that you can write volumes on this topic.

LOVE, as in universal context!

Start with how you feel love is presently existing in the society you live in, what it should really be like, what happened to the feelings of the people to change it from the true concept of the past.
end with what should be done to bring it back to its previous level. or better.

Happy and successful writing!

then reason out why it is so!

Answer 6

Science vs Religion
Morality in New Technology

Answer 7

Descartes walks into a bar and has a drink. The bartender says, "Hey, Descartes, do you want another drink?" Descartes considers and then responds, "I think not." Poof, he disappears.

Answer 8

The pros and cons of various religious beliefs. Plenty of material there.