Thursday the quiz question for my Intro to Philosophy course was which movie should we watch on our final session?

Monday evening's quiz question for Intro to Humanities II was "What did you think of Sam Harris' argument in the TED talk we watched?" On Tuesday the quiz question this week for my Intro to Philosophy sections is: What did you think of the movie Lincoln (if you have seen it)?

The quiz question for my Intro to Humanities II course for Monday evening this week was what do you think was the main lesson we learned from World War II?

For both sections of my Intro to Philosophy course on Thursday we covered Marx and the quiz question was do you think we are going to have a revolution soon? For Truth, Beauty, and Goodness the question concerned the play Waiting for Godot. Are you waiting for Godot?

The quiz question for my Intro to Philosophy sections on Tuesday was: who do you think is the most beautiful person in the world? The quiz question for my Truth Beauty Goodness course on Tuesday evening was: Is drinking until you are drunk immoral? Is drinking while pregnant immoral given what we know today about the effects on the fetus?

Thursday's quiz question for my two Intro to Philosophy classes was a fill in the blank question based on a phrase by J. S. Mill. "Better to be a dissatisfied human than a happy pig, better to be a dissatisfied (what) than a happy (what). (I am just going on my rough memory of the phrase in case it doesn't match Mill's text exactly.) My quiz for the Thursday night TBG course was: who won the Ms. America Pageant in 2012? But more to the point concerns the issue of what you think about such contests? Are they fair measurements of real beauty?

Monday evening's quiz question for HUM 212 was: what is your impression of Impressionism? Tuesday's quiz for my Intro to Philosophy classes was: who do you think is going to win the election? (Please answer before the polls close to see if you guessed correctly.)

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The quiz question for my Intro to Philosophy sections today Thursday November 1 concerned an imaginary dilemma (based on a real case). The situation is that you are coming home from work in traffic on a dark night in Detroit (some students are familiar with the place where this happened) and the traffic is so bad everyone is just sitting in their cars stuck three lanes across. There is a beautiful young woman in the car next to you. Behind her is a car with three ugly guys who are upset with her. They get out of their car and start pounding on her car trying to get at her. You are convinced that if they can get the car open they will kill her. 1st question: what is your moral obligation - to interfere or not? 2nd question: what do you imagine you might really do in such a situation? (In the real case no one helped her and she ran for her life, jumping off a bridge to get away from them and she drowned in the river.) For my Truth Beauty Goodness class the question was, did you think Steven Pinker's argument was persuasive? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk