Topics Worth Investigating

  1. If most human beings are not of a "thinking personality" type, why isn't it appropriate to appeal to nonrational means of persuasion concerning issues of ultimate concern? When a person is in immediate danger, aren't commands more effective than treatises?

  2. What should be the relation between religion and ethics? Are religious beliefs and ethics ever in conflict for a religious person? (C.f., the notion of the "teleological suspension" of the ethical in the reading from Søren Kierkegaard.)

  3. Compare the notions of "right and wrong" from a psychological, a philosophical, and a religious point of view. Are there common features?