Syllabus/Schedule

BQ 9: How would you describe yourself if you were in a story? What do you like– and dislike– about yourself?

BQ 10: Explain who you are to a visitor from another planet. How would you do this?

• Aesthetics and Beauty
• On Beauty and Being Just
• Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
  • • • Hume and his views on Personal Identity.

  BQ 11: If there was such a thing called a happiness box, would you step inside of it? Why or why not?

  • The Experience Machine by Nozick
  • The Spoils of Happiness by Sosa
  • BQ Assessment  (Happiness)

  BQ 12: Will a good person necessarily be happy as well? Is life ultimately fair?

  BQ 13: Do you believe it is wrong to take a life under any circumstances?

  • The Trolley Problem

  BQ 14: Have you ever made a decision that is totally your own?

  BQ 15: Is freedom always a good thing?

  BQ 16: Do you want to have children? Why or why not?

  • Antinatalism Assignment
  • The Big Questions Essay (Final Assessment)

  Philosophy Day (February 7, 2018)