Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Reading: On your own.
Circle: If you were "the one" what message do you think you would spread through the lands?
If you are looking to get out of the cave, who do you go to for advice?
You will be writing your essay next class. Successful essays will:
1) Explain positive things about the blue pill world.
2) Explain positive things about the red pill world.
3) Will have a logical organizational pattern with diverse claims.
4) Use of the following sources: The Matrix;"The Allegory of the Cave,"
5) Write a clear thesis/purpose statement.
8) Use claims, specific quoted evidence, and warrants to advance your purpose.
9) Use other people to proof read your essay.
Today, we will prepare for that essay
Kick off Activity: At you table you will create a list of "things" you know are real and exist. While we use the names(made up of course), be able to defend how you know they are real. Next create a list of "things" you suspect are made up, shadows if you will, and why do you think they are only shadows. Finally, the most difficult part, create a list of "things" you hope are actually real but you are not sure.
The American Dream... What does this say about the American Dream?
Directions: Pick three questions below that your are you can answer with certainty. Write a paragraph of at least 10 lines for each. For each answer, give an example of when you employed that philosophy.
- To what extent do you shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?
- Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?
- Should people care more about doing the right thing, or doing things right?
- What one piece of advice would you offer to a newborn infant?
- Where is the line between insanity and creativity?
- What is true happiness?
- What things hold you back from doing the things that you really want to?
- What makes you, you?
- What is the truth?
- What is reality?
- Do you make your own decisions, or let others make them for you?
- What makes a good friend?
- Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?
- Who defines good and evil?
- What is the difference between living and being alive?
- Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?
- Who decides what morality is?
- How do you know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?
- What is true strength?
- What is true love?
- Is a family still relevant in the modern world?
- What role does honour play in today’s society?
- If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money?
- How do you know your perceptions are real?
- How much control do you have over your life?
- What is freedom?
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