What do you guys think of having some sort of short weekly or bi-weekly philosophical reading we do? That way, we can actually have a basis for our arguments instead of just random loud and obnoxious debating.
I was thinking one of the following:
Book I of Plato's Republic (deals with the question "What is justice?")
St. Thomas Aquinas's Book II of Summa Theologica:states of life (a look at man's duty by one of the greatest theologians of all time).
I'm sure I can think of a bunch of other good ones if I go through my old schoolbooks (I had a teacher who's schtick was philosophy). We obviously don't have to do one I suggested, or even do one at all, but I just thought it might be interesting.
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my thought was to make the point of the box, to be a place to pick topics for the next week's meeting, like anything that anyone wants to talk about, put it in the box, research it durring the week however you want, be ready to talk about whatever we picked the previous week, just a thought
ReplyDeleteThis sounds suspiciously like schoolwork. I'm allergic to that.
ReplyDeletekey term being voluntary
ReplyDeleteI think its great in theory, and whenever someone bothers to bring in a thought or qoute we could certainly work off of it, otherwise I agree with Laurel.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we need to go as far as reading whole books... I believe simple internet research on certain topics will do. A lot of the time books just over elaborate anyways...
ReplyDeleteI don't have any more time to spend on reading, unfortunately.