Class Plan for Week Three Day Two

Arrange yourself by your favorite number.

Steven's presentation on the Oracle.

Discussion of  Steven's presentation.

A review of  Homer to Pythagoras, what is happening to the arche? 

Pythagoras and  his followers.

What is number. 

Xenophanes Class Plan

Week Three   Day  One:  Xenophanes

The Name  Game.

Arrange yourself  alphabetically by your favorite pet’s name. If you don’t have a pet, just pick a non-domesticated animal that you like.

How does your animal view the world? God?

Xenophanes and  critique of  Homeric Religion.

Review what we know about Homeric Religion.

Xenophanes  view of  divinity.

Xenphanes in light of Milesian Monism.  

In Honor of Sappho's Legacy- Class Two, Day Two

Here's a link to an article about other female philosophers and how and why  their work has been overlooked

http://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/features/finding-philosophys-female-voices/


Here's a link  also to the Lesbos refugees  that I mentioned in  class   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/12001106/Migrants-and-refugees-make-journey-to-Greek-island-of-Lesbos-in-pictures.html



Class Plan  For  Week  Two  Day Two.


Please arrange yourself  by  birth  date and month.
Brief discussion of  the concept of an "Acme."

Review of  Thales, Anaxminader and Anaximenes and how they intersect with  Homer and Hesiod.  A return to the  Philosophy "out of myth"  Thesis. 

Around  2:15  Dr. Burris will arrive.  I'm not sure how long he will talk. 

Post his talk on his work with Sappho,     we will talk about Sappho as a pre socratic thinker and  how she  also participates in the Homeric legacy. 

Class Plan For Week Two - Day One.

1.     The Name Game continues.  Please arrange yourself  by  the geographic distance of your home town from  Waco. 

2.  Name one aspect of   where you are from  that shapes how you view the world.

2.5    A Discussion of  Class Presentations

3.      A Discussion of the Questions that will guide us.

A.   Where is the philosopher from

B.     What are some biographical facts and stories about him ?

C.    What is the arche ? (I’ll talk about what the arche is in class)

D.    What are the characteristics of the arche?

E.     What are the metaphysical views that the philosopher has?

F.     What are the epistemological views that the philosopher has?

G.   What are the ethical views that the philosopher has?

H.    What are the aesthetic views that the philosopher has?

I.       How does the philosopher relate to his predecessors?

J.      How does the philosopher influence the future?

K.    How would you apply these insights to your own experience in the world? 

4.     Looking at  Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, through these  questions.

Take an hour or so on Monday to read Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail

Monday is Martin Luther King day.  For the past  ten years or so,  I've made it a practice to reread  Dr. King's  Letter from Birmingham Jail.  It  is one of my favorite works of philosophy.   You find quite a few allusions to ancient thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aquinas, many theologians, and one of the most stirring exhortations to live and act according to principles of  higher  justice that you will read.  It is lovely to have it in mind as we  read  Plato's Apology and the Phaedo as well.

Here's a link to the article.



https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

The Plan for Day Two

Here are some suggestions for  your Homer, Hesiod  Blog.

Describe content of Homer and Hesiod.

Is it in anyway philosophical to you? 

Describe the difference between Homer and Hesiod.

Describe your previous experiences with reading Homer.

Respond to the how philosophy lost its way article.

Third,  Here’s  our  plan for  Class.      You don’t have to bring Homer to class, but please print out the Hesiod reading or have access to it via some mobile device. 

2:00-2:05   The name  game

2:05- 2:25   Homer

2:25-2:35     What is  Myth?      What is  Religion?

2:40-2:55    Hesiod  Invocation of the Muses

2:55-3:15   Hesiod  Four fold image of the origin of the cosmos

Looking forward to  Day Two. 

Here's a link about how philosophy lost its way

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/when-philosophy-lost-its-way/?smid=fb-share&_r=1