Monday, April 22, 2013

This morning in Truth Beauty Goodness the question was "what do you think motivated the brothers to attack at the Boston marathon?"

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The quiz question for Intro to Philosophy this morning was: Have you ever been Saved? What does the expression "Saved" mean to you? (I discussed this in the context described by Josiah Royce in his book "The Sources of Religious Insight"). For Intro to Humanities II the quiz question today was for you to pick the animal that you would imagine as illustrative of your own personal characteristics. (This based on the description of the imagination we need to be successful in David Brooks TED talk on the Social Animal.)

Monday, April 15, 2013

For Truth Beauty Goodness the quiz question was to contrast your cognitive map with mine: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/quest/cmap.htm Today the quiz question for Intro to Philosophy was concerned with the relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and what did you think of Wagner?

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Today the quiz question for Intro to Philosophy was concerned with the relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and what did you think of Wagner? In Intro to Humanities II the quiz question concerned what you thought of Basile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57uH0lYIVe0

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

For Truth Beauty and Goodness today the quiz question was what is the metanarrative of CREAM?

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The quiz question for Intro to Philosophy this morning was: do we seem like we are moving towards the kind of world wide revolution Marx predicted? The quiz question for Intro to Humanities II this morning was: do the differences between progress in South America and regress in Africa look like they are associated with the advance in education in South America and the regress of education in Africa?

Monday, April 8, 2013

For Truth Beauty Goodness the quiz question today concerned the basic moral principle of love for others: are you pro love? Anti-love? Neutral? The quiz question for Intro to Philosophy this afternoon was: does the sequence of positions described by Kierkegaard seem similar to your own experiences?

Friday, April 5, 2013

The Quiz question for Intro to Philosophy on Thursday morning and Monday afternoon was is the work by Francis Fukuyama titled "The End of History" Hegelian?
Thursday the quiz question for Intro to Philosophy was: does the sequence of positions described by Kierkegaard seem similar to your own experiences? For Introduction to Humanities II the question was: What did you think about the books selected for the course? Do you have any recommendations regarding book selection?