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- What is knowledge?
- What can we know, and how do we know that we know it?
- What is the place of science in our social, economic, and political lives?
- What is the relationship between humanity and technology?
- How has technology impacted American culture, in its literature, film, and beyond?
- What does it mean to be free and self-aware?
- What does freedom require of us?
- What are the limits of justice?
- And why are people capable of both great nobility and great evil?
- What are my obligations to others as their fellow-citizen and as an engineer?
- What is the meaning of art?
- Does it convey truth? And if so, how do its truths differ from scientific truths?
- How does beauty bring sense to life?
- Do human beings need beauty to live meaningful lives?
- What is the role of creativity in engineering?
- How is the engineer like an artist?
- Is truth merely relative? Or is it universal?
- How do I distinguish my inherited opinions from the truth?
- What is the relationship between truth and beauty?
- Truth and faith?
- Truth and justice?
- Is there a God, supreme being, or supernatural power of some sort?
- What might his intentions be for humanity?
- And why is faith so challenging for human beings?
- How do history, politics, culture, and technology inform our identities as individuals?
- How do aspects of an individual’s heritage inform their senses of self and belonging?
- What is the impact of history, oppression, and colonialism on our individual identities?
- What is human nature? And how do our identities inform how we conceive of it?
