One-Pager #3 the value of stories, the harm of stories, Plato, Aristotle, Umberto Eco, Raymond Chandler, Medea, Young Werther, The Education of Mingo, Pulp Fiction, or any of the articles and videos in our folder in Blackboard. Moral differences, anthropology, ethical relativism, refuting ethical relativism, James Rachels, soft universalism, Ruth Benedict, Ethics as social convention, Steinbeck’s “Paradox or Dream?”, The Poisonwood Bible, Possessing the Secret of Joy, FGM, Avatar, or any of the articles and videos in our folder in Blackboard.
General information on One-Pagers:
Use MLA format, double-spaced and cite texts. One-Pagers help you to begin to think about philosophy, the love of wisdom, to begin to think about thinking. What about each week’s readings really touched you and why? It is hoped that you will further develop one of these interaction papers to then write your Midterm Paper. This is called “scaffolding.” You will write more and more philosophically as you build on your former words and ideas, as you begin to think more and more logically.
How should you go about writing your one-pagers?
1) Read the material
2) Think about the material
3) Reread the material
4) Write one page about those thoughts.
5) The thoughts do not need to be written beautifully with a formal intro and conclusion. In a way, they are all introductions to your introduction to thinking. It is good to have a main idea that you are exploring, but it does not need to be cooked up into a “thesis” yet.
6) It is extremely useful to quote the text because this grounds your thoughts and gives them depth.