Topics List we came up with today: (Mr. B would be proud.)
Morality:
Death/Mortality:
Ethics:
Time/Forever
What else is out there?
What do we owe?
Love-Trust
Seven Deadly Sins
Are People Machines?
Nature Vs. Nurture
Is anything absolute?
Hate
Relatively
Supernatural
Evolution vs Creationism
Why do we do what we do? (Motivation)
Individualism
~Bookmark
3 comments:
I could/should be writing school papers right now, but I'd rather not. Therefore, this will be a lengthy, procrastinative (can "procrastinate" be made into an adjective?) reply. I will briefly comment on every suggested topic. I do not want others to believe I am "topic-bashing", for lack of a better word. These are simply my own opinions.
Morality - Could work very well from many different perspectives, as morals cross sociological, psychological and theological spectrums.
Death/Mortality - Not so interested in this one. It stands out as "throwback philosophy", if that makes any sense. Also, I'm not sure we can get far with it at all, given that I don't think it can every be answered.
Ethics - We'll have to narrow this one down.
Time/Forever - Could be very interesting indeed. I'm not sure what to think about it now, because it's such an unfathomable concept that I can barely get my mind around it. But oh how interesting it could be.
What else is out there? - I feel the same about this question as I do about Death/Mortality. Perhaps it could intrigue me more depending on how it's presented, but at the moment, I'm not for it.
What do we owe? - Already discussed.
Love/Trust - Why not separate these and make them into two separate units? Sure, trust is involved in love, but I see them as two entirely different entities. We could definitely get some interesting discussions regarding both of them.
Seven Deadly Sins - I'm not sure they'll work as an independent unit. Perhaps we could discuss them (and sins involved in other religions) whilst discussing Morality, because they're sociological and religious.
Are People Machines? - No more nihilism.
Nature Vs. Nurture - I'm curious about this one. It could be good. Also, it can be done both with textual examples (cause there are certainly loads) as well as through pure, text-less discussion.
Is anything absolute? - Also one I hadn't thought about before. It does seem to meekly poke at nihilism, but I'm not concerned. It could be a fantastically doubtful discussion (doubtful being a good thing, in this instance), and would be excellently mind-boggling.
Hate - It's just my own personal preference to avoid animosity.
Relatively - I'm assuming this is meant to be Relativity, correct? If so, we just did fate. Too similar.
Supernatural - Too... religious.
Evolution vs Creationism - I think only like 6 of us had to read Summer for the Gods in biology. Regardless, I hope to never be subjected to such unpleasantries again.
Why do we do what we do? (Motivation) - Oh! I like this one! It's another one I'd never really thought about before. Any idea what a unit on this could involve, Mr. B.?
Individualism - While we did this at the beginning of last year, I think it could work out well again, given our new batch of philosophers. And we never really had much of an introduction to each other this year. Could this perhaps serve as a philosophical "getting to know you" game?
Ok, done! Now I really do have to write that paper...
I am proud... thanks for covering for me while I was enjoying the flu...
If we can converge on a new topic by Tuesday, I'll have time to develop an activity by Thursday... otherwise we'll continue into the thick of consciousness and that packet I provided last week (it seems to address dualism and naturalized epistemology, two topics that aroused interest in a recent thread...
Hah, thanks for the constructive criticism Aileen, I do think she's right about most of these topics, and I think I would like to see more of the Individualism, Motivation, and Nature Vs. Nurture topics.
~Bookmark
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