Answer to the following questions
1. Do you think it is possible to truly understand the philosophy of another culture? Why or why not? What would be needed?
2. Before the legal abolition of slavery, was it morally legitimate to own slaves, at least in cultures where slavery was normal? Why or why not?
3. What is the relationship between a philosophy and its culture? (Is a philosophy simply an articulation of the culture, an attempt to resist the culture, an attempt to find universals beyond the culture, an attempt to imagine the culture’s future, or something else?)
4. If it were up to you to expand the Western philosophical canon, how would you change it? What would you put in or leave out? Why?