Story time!! Zen Shorts - not shorts as in "short pants", but shorts as in "short stories".
Philosophy in Three Minutes or Less
Why Study Philosophy? Matt Groening Explains - he created The Simpsons.
How Would You Solve These Little Life's Problems?
Your First Encounter with Metaphysics - Daniel Dennett on TED Talks.
For tonight and tomorrow at school . . . first of all you will NEED a Gmail account for this course - go and make one for yourself if you don't already have one. Please make it as close to your first and last name as possible - mine is marktkovich@gmail.com - when I first made my account markkovich@gmail.com was already taken so I had to stick my middle initial in there.
Step 1 of 6
Watch these three videos (you can see the text of these talks (subtitles) by clicking the button directly below the video indicating "27 Languages"):
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
Step 2 of 6
Write your impressions of each of these Philosophy disciplines. You best bet is to do this in your newly discovered Google Docs, which is part of your GMail address . . . starting clicking buttons, you'll see! Remember, this is a 12U course and Iexpect a 12U-level of thinking, writing and effort for all of your work.
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