What - there's more?
Philosophy - an exploration
Third assignment
1. All groups
Using the sites below, match each of the listed philosophers (under the chart) to his period and type in his name.
Copy the chart to WORD, fill in the names and dates, and print it out (one copy for each member of your group). The leader of each group is responsible for deciding how the group should share responsibility.Why are you doing this particular exercise?
Prepare at least three reasons to
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PERIOD |
DATES of PERIOD |
FULL NAMES of PHILOSOPHERS |
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Hellenism |
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Humanism |
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Neo-Platonism |
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Stoics |
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Reformation |
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Rationalists |
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Empiricists |
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French Enlightenment |
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Determinism |
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Romanticism |
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Existentialism |
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Beyond Existentialism |
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Names to search for (in alphabetical order):
Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Bacon, Beauvoir, Berkeley, Burke, Descartes, Dewey, Epicurus, Foucault, Frege, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Plato, Rand, Rousseau, Russell, Sartre, Socrates, Spinoza, Wittgenstein.
How many are women and who are they?
Sites to search
- these are listed in order of their usefulness. Each of these sites has links you will need for later so bookmark them. Extras: Encyclopedias and search engines Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Using the sites above find out a little more about the period for which you are producing a skit etc. Your group is now a newspaper or broadcasting team living during the period that has been assigned to you. Your object is to produce a newspaper article or broadcast script about your subject as if you were there. If you wish to take on different personas other than journalists that's fine with me. However, your group must produce a written piece of work
(see evaluation rubrics). I will have time to discuss the various philosophies with each group so if you are really stuck - don't panic.|
Group 1 determinism Group 2 idealismGroup 3 materialismGroup 4 pluralism |
Group 5 pragmatismGroup 6 rationalismGroup 7 empiricismGroup 8 hedonism |
3. Individual groups
Each group will choose four quotes from philosophers listed on the two sites below. This means that each member of the group will choose one quote. You may choose anything you like even if you think another group might have chosen your particular quote. Print them out on a single page (
don't forget to add your names) and discuss within your group, why you chose these particular quotes. We will be having a discussion forum in class to which you are asked to bring these quotes. Prepare to come dressed appropriately! (What on earth does she mean?)
For quotes
4.Individual groups
(your very last assignment)
Below is a long list of questions. Each group has been allocated six questions. Together, choose four of them. The leader of each group should make sure that each of the group members receives one question to research. It is the secretary's job to print them out. Do not forget to include the name of the philosopher you have quoted and the names of the group you belong to. You will need answers for the forum.
(Your group will lose points if a member is unprepared.) I definitely encourage you not only to search the Web but also to ask other groups if they can help. You may find that another group already knows the answer to one of your questions.Group 1
could be proven? Name three of them.
Group 2
substances?
Group 3
of all things?
point out?
Group 4
dominated the Athenian scene at the time?
means by this.
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Group 5
question did they struggle with?
Group 6
essential preconditions and why?
mean that he thought nothing mattered or that anything is permissible?
Group 7
else other than material sustenance and care. What?
the Romantics' view concerning art and philosophy?
Group 8 |
good life?"
him?
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What is the only thing we require to be good philosophers? Explain.