PHI 2396 Midterm: Midterm Preparation Questions PHI 2396 .docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Andrew Sneddon

Document Summary

Here are five questions to help you study for the midterm. On tuesday, oct. 7, i will shorten this list to three, from which you will have to choose two questions to answer. There is no minimum or maximum page limit, but it"s hard to imagine a good answer to any of these questions that was less than three handwritten pages long. No notes, books, or devices are permitted while writing the test. See below for some extra instructions: provide your own definition of health. Explain how it is similar to, different from and preferable to those offered by callahan and the who. Is it a normative or descriptive definition: normative; what is should be, how you describe something (i. e. we want specific ideal). Your not mentally ill) take point of view of the normal patient on variances of normal states. Feeling anxious before an interview isn"t necessarily an ideal state: many definitions and counters, opposition point.