B1.2

identify the big questions associated with each of the main areas of philosophy (e.g., metaphysics: Is there a supreme being? What is the nature of reality? What is the meaning of life?; ethics: What is a good person? Are there just wars? If so, what makes them just?; epistemology: What is truth? Is it possible to know the world as it truly is?; philosophy of science: What distinguishes science from other ways of knowing? What is the nature of scientific evidence? Is it ever possible, or desirable, for a scientist to be objective?; social and political philosophy: What are the limits of state authority? What is the best form of government? Why? What is social justice?; aesthetics: What is beauty? Is censorship ever justified?)