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ONTOLOGY
What really exists?
Why is there something rather than nothing?

METAPHYSICS
What is everything made of?
Is reality continuous or discrete?
How are permanence and change related?

EPISTEMOLOGY
What can we know?|
How is knowledge different from belief or faith?

ETHICS
What is goodness?
What is moral truth?
What is justice?
Do good and evil exist?

AESTHETICS
What is beauty?
Is it external or in the eye of the beholder?

THEOLOGY
Does God exist?
If so, what is God's nature?
Is atheism a religion?

POLITICS
What is the best form of government?
Who should rule?

HISTORY
Is history linear or cyclical?
Can historians be objective?

SCIENCE
Does the scientific method yield truth?
If so, what kind?

LOGIC
Does logic produce knowledge?
What are strengths/weakness of inductive/deductive logic?
Is randomness possible?
EQUALITY vs. FREEDOM
Is equality more important than freedom?
Is freedom more important than equality?

SOCIETY vs. the INDIVIDUAL
Is society more important than the individual?
Is the individual more important than society?

RELATIVISM vs. ABSOLUTISM
Is all truth relative?
Is some truth absolute?

HUMAN HISTORY
Is human history linear?
Is human history cyclical?

TABULA RASA vs. HUMAN NATURE
Is a child a "blank slate" at birth?
Does a child have a "human nature" at birth?

NATURE vs. MAN
Is man wholly a part of nature?
Is man, in significant ways, independent of nature?

DETERMINISM vs. FREE WILL
Is there a law of causation which a person's every action obeys?
Does each person have a will that is genuinely free?

CULTURE vs. CULTURE
Are all cultures of equal worth?
Are some cultures of greater or lesser worth than others?

GOVT REGULATION vs. MARKET FORCES
Is government regulation a better way to distribute wealth?
Are supply and demand better ways to distribute wealth?


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