Welcome back! Happy New Decade!
Business
- Welcome to new peeps!
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- Please return 1984!
- A Gift to You: A Philosophy Reader (Oh wow! A reader! How exciting!) WRITE YOUR NAME ON IT!
Philosophy Project Preview: Your Life on Earth
HONORS:
Please review as homework and check out a copy of The Stranger (Seminar in one week!). New students, if you are interested in doing Honors, please chat with me today!
NEW PROJECT COMP BOOK RESET!
1. Start a new Digital Comp Book or decide to keep it on the actual Earth instead of the cloud.
2. Create a header that says "YOUR NAME My Life on Earth: Starters/Journal" at the very top. Share with me if digital.
3. Whatever method you use: PLEASE RECORD DAILY STARTERS AND JOURNALS IN THE SAME PLACE. Continue to label starters and journals clearly as labeled on my DP. (Starters will always be signified with the date; journal entries will usually have the date plus a title or label.)
4. As before, see the link on my Resources/Links tab to catch up on starters and journal entries. I will highlight necessary entries in blue on my DP each day.
Let’s start!
Starter 1.7: Watch Alan Watts' "What do you desire?" and freewrite on the following questions:
- What is the purpose of your existence?
- What gives your life meaning?
- How do you define happiness?
Stanford Research Reveals...
In PAIRS, discuss and jot down some notes:
- Briefly summarize 3 different ways the researcher distinguishes between happiness and meaning.
- Overall, how would the researcher, Jennifer Aaker, define happiness? How would she define meaning?
- According to her definition of these two concepts, which do you think is more important? Why?
JOURNAL 1.7 Stanford Research Reaction:
Do you agree with Aaker's classifications of happiness and meaning? In other words, are they as separate as Aaker makes them out to be? Can they exist without each other? Which do you feel is more dominant in guiding your choices and thoughts in your current phase of life? Explain your thoughts thoroughly and give examples. (These comp books are just between you and me!)
Work Time/Homework:
Read/annotate “The Meaning of Life” by James Rachels. Think about the questions that this reading brings up and/or attempts to answer. (Do you see intertextual connections?)
Honors (and anyone else): Check out and read The Stranger, our first Honors book and a core text of the philosophy we call “Existentialism.”