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PICK ONE TOPIC FROM CHAPTER ONE AND CHAPTER TWO
Write a paper on Socrates’ quotes Socrates: “The Unexamined Life is not worth living” and “We go through life sleep walking”
Reflect and explain Socrates quote IN YOUR OWN
Refer to any of your classroom discussions
Refer to any of your homework Assignments
Refer to any of the following movies and video clips embedded in the lecture slides
Refer to any of video clips and stories and links embedded in the lecture slides and on Canvas
Refer to any of lecture slides and your lecture notes
Reflect on what type of person and philosopher Socrates was
Reflect on why he might have been brought up on charges and condemned to
Reflect on how Socrates felt about the trial and his death
Share and discuss this quote with family and friends and include insights gained from these conversations
You have 100% freedom on how to approach this Be creative! Think outside the box. Teach me!
Have confidence in who you are as a student, a writer and a philosopher!
Bring in material from Chapter One and Chapter Two
A strong paper will have citations from the textbook to back up and support your ideas
Reflect on the following links and include in your paper:
Waking Life: https://fsharetv.co/movie/waking-life-episode-1-tt0243017
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The Death of Socrates Painting from David:
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+death+of+socrates&biw=1396&bih=690&source=lnms&tbm=isch&s
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Life as Jelly Beans:
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Everybody dies but not everybody lives:
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American Beauty:
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Nurse Reveals The Top 5 Regrets People Make On Their Deathbed:
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Science of Happiness I:
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Science of Happiness II:
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nature |Louie Schwartzberg:
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Finding your Meaning of Life
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The employees shut inside coffins
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A Good Day to Die: Fake Funerals in South Korea
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Shots of awe: mortality
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Shots of Awe: Conquering our fear of death
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Shots of Awe: Why are we so unhappy
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Dr Cornel West The Unexamined Life is not worth living
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Waking Life movie: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/waking-life/
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OR PICK A TOPIC ON CHAPTER THREE FROM THE TOPICS BELOW
1.Explain Plato’s concept of the Self/Soul? How does Plato divide the Self/Soul and why is this important? What happens to the Self/Soul when the body dies? How is the soul divided for Plato and which part is more significant? What does he place such a focus? What may be problematic with Plato’s view of the soul and reason? What are the strengths and weakness of his arguments for the idea of a self or soul? Refer to material from the book, lecture notes, class discussions, YouTube and video clips, and even some of the movies. Refer to The Giver and Equilibrium clips. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
The materialists claim that there is no soul or self in the traditional sense but rather that the brain can be analyzed and studies to help understand how and why we think and do what we? How do they understand then how the mind/brain works? Do they have any room in their analysis for dreams, personality, consciousness, identity in the traditional sense? How do they explain these then? What sets us apart from animals and other species for the materialists? Is it that our brain is bigger or more advanced or is there something else? What are the strengths and weakness of their arguments for the idea of a self or soul? Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
In what ways do our memories, images as reflected in photographs and images as reflected in mirrors help give us a sense of who we are as humans and as individuals. In what ways do they give us a sense of our awareness and personal identity? Reflect on the movies that we saw and the video clips on mirrors and memory loss. Relate the material as discussed by our authors in Chapter therewith your own interpretation and understanding. What would occur if you lost your ability to retain memories or if you no longer recognized yourself in a mirror or in pictures, how would you deal with the world and reality and your own understanding of yourself. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Discussion the ideas of Descartes’ Modern Perspective on the Self. Descartes, “the father and founder of modern philosophy,” was concerned with understanding the thinking or reasoning process employed to answer philosophical questions and its relation to the human self. In order to develop well-informed beliefs, Descartes held that one must doubt all truths that are not certain and indubitable. Given this method of doubt, Descartes was able to conclude through the use of reason that since I think, I am. Cogito Ergo Sum. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
According to Freud, our self or soul is divided into three parts, Id, Ego and Superego. Explain what they are and how they co-exist? In what ways are the similar or different than Plato’s three parts? Freud also argues that it can be subdivided into the Conscious and Unconscious. Explain what they are? Which of the two is most important for Freud? He also states that our self is usually formed by the age of six. In what ways does this occur? How significant are our first six years of life for Freud? Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Discuss the development of our memories and how it is connected to our sense of self (self-recognition) discuss the importance of mirrors as a well to identify self and the capacity to recall memories of our self. (see posted video clips ) Discuss Clive Wearing the individual who has a memory span of only 7-10 seconds (see posted video clip) How does he know who he is? Does he know who he is? What concept of self does Clive have. How does he anchor himself in time. Discuss the lady who never forgets anything. (see video clip posted online). Discuss Terry Wallis the individual who was in a semi vegetative state for 19 years and woke up. Who is he, what kind of sense of self does Terry have? How does he anchor himself in time? What is it like for individuals who emerge from a coma. How do they come to themselves? What types of things are useful to help them emerge and become their old selves again. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Discuss the materialists view of the mind/brain and consciousness and awareness as discussed in class. In what ways can we understand who we are by looking at our Brains. Refer to these links for information. Including FMRI and Brainmapping techniques. The Self is the Brain: Materialism is the ontological view that all facets of the universe are composed of matter and energy and can be explicated through natural laws. Per materialists, especially neurophysiologists, the self is inseparable from the substance of the brain and the body’s physiology. Paul Churchland argues that “folk psychology” will be eliminated once advances in neuroscience develop the vocabulary that will enable us to be objective about the mind, consciousness, and human experience. This view is coined eliminative materialism. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Discuss how Locke says we come to know who we are and what he has to say about a soul. The Self is Consciousness: Locke held that the mind or soul was a tabula rasa (blank slate). Personal identity, or knowledge of the self as a person, requires consciousness of our constantly perceiving self connect by memories. It is memory that connects our self at one moment to our self at other moments. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Write a paper on concepts of self as it relates to Robots, artificial intelligence and computers. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, lecture slides, authorized video links in Canvas, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
Write a comparative and contrast paper on the following philosophers conception of a soul: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle OR Plotinus, St Augustine, and St Aquinas OR Descartes and Locke, OR Locke and Hume OR Locke and Kant, OR Locke or Descartes and the Neuroscientist. Remember a strong paper ALWAYS uses material from the textbook to SUPPORT your ideas and opinions. A WEAK paper has too many quotes/footnotes or none at all. Please include at least 3-5 citations from our course textbook The Philosopher’s Way, lecture notes, homework questions, in class video selections and you tube clips ONLY. Do not bring in other outside sources.
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