Questions
For each question: the positions, the best arguments on every side, and the objections.
Does God exist?
Proofs, objections, and what philosophers think
What makes something right?
Duty, consequences, virtues
What is a just society?
Liberty, equality, power and the social contract
Can we be certain of anything?
Doubt, reason, experience
Are we free?
Free will, determinism, compatibilism
What is happiness?
Pleasure, virtue, peace of mind or meaning
Who am I, really?
The self, consciousness, what remains when everything changes
Is the mind the brain?
Dualism, materialism, consciousness
Should we fear death?
Nothingness, immortality of the soul, facing the end
Do animals matter as much as we do?
Suffering, rights, meat and human dignity
Are humans good by nature?
Natural goodness, a bent toward evil, or a nature that is shaped
Must we always obey the law?
Obedience, conscience, revolt, and the state itself
Does history have a direction?
Providence, progress, cycles or chance
Does life have a meaning?
Given meaning, meaning to create, or absurd
Should we believe without proof?
Faith and reason: harmony, separation or conflict
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Being, nothingness, the reason for the world
What is love?
Desire, the lost half, illusion, self-giving
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
Taste, harmony, culture and universality
Can science explain everything?
Method, truth, limits and scientific revolutions
Is the world real?
Dreams, the evil demon, brains in vats, simulation
Can a machine think?
Computation, understanding, the body and artificial intelligence
Does time really exist?
Past, present, future, duration and physics
Should we have children?
Giving life, antinatalism, choice