Your goal by the end of class tomorrow is to submit a "proposed philosophical connection" for your essay. Again, it is a brief form but will give me a sense of what you have discovered as well as the chance to work with you on it.
Types of questions used to challenge and expand an existing question:
- What are its assumptions and premises?
- What are its implications?
- What different types or contexts exist?
- When does / doesn’t it work?
- What do the specific terms mean?
- What are the reasons underlying the questions / answers?
- Who else shares this belief or perspective, and why?
How do I narrow down my question?
How do I make my question manageable and specific?
For example: What is the meaning of life?
- Whose life am I talking about?
- What gives my life meaning?
- What do I mean by “meaning”?
- What can I do to give my life the kind of meaning that makes my spirit soar, that makes me feel like I’m making this world a little better place to live in?
- What speaks for and against each of these perspectives?
- How can I give my life the kind of meaning that makes my life worthwhile for me?
How do I expand my question? How can I more thoroughly explore it?
For example: How can we overcome alienation?
- Is alienation something we always want to overcome?
- How does our life change for the better / worse if we are alienated?
- What are the different types or degrees of alienation?
- Is it possible to be completely alienated?
- What exactly does alienation mean? What does it mean to overcome it?
- Are we able to control being alienated?
- Why would others want to alienate someone?
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