Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Proposed Topics for Discussion

Here is the run down on the topics proposed. Hopefully at our next meeting we can nail down what issue we will do each week. We can leave some topics for next semester.

Topics for Discussion


Psychology (Child Development & Piaget & Freud, How we think, relationships, mind/body problem)

Culture (Pop Culture, Afrocentrism, Institutions & trustable knowledge, law, the big thinkers of today, Art, Language, putting ideas into action)

Religion (Existence of God, Proofs of God, Asian Religion/Philosophy, Modern Society, Necessary, Good/Bad, meaning of life & existence, Spinoza)

Ethics (Free Will, Freedom of Speech, Utilitarianism, Race Gender & Class, Suicide & Euthanasia)

How much work?

No writing, not a lot of work

Read a few articles (2 or 3) per topic

Move chairs into a circle for better discussion

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