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Good Friday? More like our Day of Mourning.
Apr 2nd
In class Wednesday, I mentioned that it is a bit odd that Christians call it “Good Friday,” when it is the day that marks the death of their God. A student, as he was leaving, made it a point to tell me that Jesus’ death was a god thing for it saved us from [...]
Best Noncanonical Early Christian Readings? (Help Wanted)
Mar 28th
I am in the middle of writing the first week of Christianity for my online Living Religions class. I want the students to have a sampling of extra-canonical Christian literature. I am like a kid in a candy story, bursting from one text to the next, and not able to make a decision. All them [...]
Something is a Batmobile if…
Mar 3rd
I got a little geeky today in class. First, I asked if we would all say something (I forget what). When the class was quiet, I said “So say we all?” They relied in unison “so say we all.” I then chuckled and offered bonus points for identifying the reference to “so say we all.”
No [...]
Best Pro-Abortion Article Ever (& I am Anti-Abortion)
Feb 3rd
For my discussions on Friday in my Intro to Philosophy Class I am having my students read A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson.
It is the best anti-abortion article I have come across so far. I say this for two reasons. First, it comes the closest to convincing me of the pro-abortion position. Second, [...]
Discussion Questions, and an Argument Exercise: Self and Selfishness
Jan 22nd
Because I use this space to think about what I am teaching, among other things, I am going to post the discussion questions I ask my students and the writing exercises I assign them each Friday. My class is intro to philosophy and my students are freshmen from a rural background.[1]
Discussion Questions:
1) What is [...]
Discovery Questions in Philosophy
Jan 15th
In my Intro class, I asked the students today to answer the following questions. I am keeping their replies until the end of the semester at which point I will have them re-answer them and then compare their answers.
1) Metaphysics: “Is a bale of hay still a bale of hay if you remove one straw? [...]
Thinking Out Loud
Jan 10th
Anytime you teach on Islam, you gotta throw in some Said. #
Gotta say, I'm liking Bing over Google. #
Totally going to make my class tweet their reading summaries. #
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Thus was drawn the Übermensch
Jan 3rd
I came across this illustration today whilst thumbing through books for my upcoming philosophy class I’m teaching.
It is from Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne. It is a comic book of Western Philosophy from the early Greeks through Feminism and Post-Structuralism. I don’t have the freedom to assign any books I wish, but I [...]
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