Zander Lu-Critical Reflection #6

“there is not always, all things considered, a best thing to do.”-Kwame Anthony Appiah Revisiting my essential question, I’ve realized how broad I made my project. I don’t know how[…]

Zander Lu-Critical Reflection #5

“a value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.” -Kwame Anthony Appiah This week I finished reading my outside materials,[…]

CR # 6 – Rosina Kling

Before beginning this project I had little to no insight on what it meant to study philosophy through a creative lens. The areas of philosophy I first looked into brought[…]

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 6

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 5

Critical Reflection 5 Metacognition: What have you discovered about your process, your habits? Now, what do you know you don’t know? Circle back to your essential question. I[…]

CR# 5 – Rosina Kling

I’ve really enjoyed the independent study process so far. It gives me the freedom to construct my day in a way that makes me feel most comfortable, which in turn[…]

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 4

Critical Reflection 4 Connect to outside sources (article/book/podcast/ted talk/blog/website/etc) This is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have[…]

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 3

Critical Reflection 3 Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question? How are you exploring your essential question; is[…]

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 2

Critical Reflection 2 Directions: describe a moment and analyze: “Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential[…]

Lulu Fleming-Benite — Critical Reflection 1

Critical Reflection 1 Assignment: As Confucius said “True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know” and Socrates said “Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.” This assignment is[…]

CR # 4 – Rosina Kling

First Source: Crash Course Philosophy The question of morality is one that comes up often in almost every sector of philosophy. In episode 31 of Crash Course Philosophy, Hank[…]

Zander Lu-Critical Reflection #3

“Even if by the utmost effort the goodwill accomplishes nothing it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself.”-[…]

Critical Reflection #3 – Rosina

My essential question deals more with the creative aspect of this project of taking my own interpretations of philosophical thinking and applying them to whatever art I feel like creating.[…]

Zander Lu- Critical Reflection #2

“It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge.” Oscar Wilde Morality is more complicated than I thought. There are principles defining how to act. The[…]

Zander Lu- Week 2.2

Libertarianism, on the other hand, respects the right to choose. It values the individual. The fundamental right is to live as we please, as long as it doesn’t inhibit others[…]

Zander Lu- Week 2.1

Utilitarianism believes that the moral thing to do is to maximize pleasure over pain. This means that while some may suffer, as long as most prosper, it is worth it.[…]

Critical Reflection #2 – Rosina Kling

Write about a single experience or moment, and ask: how does this moment, experience, or encounter relate to my essential question?” In week two of exploring Hank Green’s Crash[…]

Zander Lu-Week 1.2

I started reading the Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah. I was introduced to the ideas of individualism and autonomy as philosophical concepts. The book is more engaging than[…]

Zander Lu-Week 1.1

I have just started. I have read an essay on Indian Moral Thought. I have read This Is Water by David Foster Wallace. These have just started me on the[…]

Critical Reflection #1 – Rosina

The field of philosophy involves thinking about the world through questions similar to the one asked for this paper. What do you know? A philosopher might argue that, to answer[…]