Examine the different definitions of happiness

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Question 1. What is the importance of the Cogito (I am, I exist) in Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy? How does it differ from how Ibn Sina understands the content of the soul?

Question 2. What does David Hume mean when he says 'The wise man apportions his belief to the evidence?' What does this say about empirical thought?

Question 3. Examine the different definitions of happiness used by Aristotle and John Stuart Mill. How do their understandings of happiness differ?

Question 4. What does Immanuel Kant respond to in David Hume's work? What is the nature of the disagreement and how does Kant seek to resolve it?

Question 5. Nagarjuna argues that the self is empty of content while Socrates calls for an examination of the self. Are these ideas entirely incompatible?

Question 6. What might it look like to synthesize them?

Compare John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's ethical systems. Can something be ethical in one system and immoral in the other? Why?

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