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THE ASSIGNMENT
Complete at least one full set of philosopher cards (10 cards in a set). Eight should be chosen from the list below. One should be an individual not on the list who you would consider a "philosopher." One should be yourself. Wrap up in a packet with bubble gum included and hand in to Dan (a.k.a. Mr. Bubbles).
THE PURPOSE
To introduce you to the thought of many philosophers.
CARD SPECIFICATIONS
I will provide 5"x8" file cards. You should spend at least half an hour researching each philosopher, using the internet and the books provided. The front of the card should include 1) the name of the philosopher at the top; 2) a picture of the philosopher in the middle; and 3) a short, interesting quotation from the philosopher at the bottom. The back of the card should include 1) the year of birth and death; 2) the place of birth and death; 3) a paragraph called "PHILOSOPHY"; 4) a section called "LIFE;" and 5) a "FACTOID." The "PHILOSOPHY" section is the most important of the assignment. Although you will not have the space for detailed description, you should have room for a concise analysis that moves to the heart of the philosopher’s thought. Keep the "LIFE" section to no more than a couple of sentences. Here, do not offer a full biography but rather highlight one or two key points that help to make sense of the philosopher’s thought. Try to find an interesting fact about the philosopher for the "FACTOID." Use your own words on the back of the card. This will help you to understand the philosophers. I much prefer an honest attempt here to a professional cut-and-paste job.
TO DO AN EXCELLENT JOB ON THIS PROJECT
Take detailed notes and print off materials before thinking about finishing the cards themselves (this research can be handed in with your assignment). Do not stop with 10 philosophers. Aim for 20. Complete the whole set! If you think the format as outlined will unnecessarily confine you, talk to me about the possibility of a Scrapbook approach.
THE PHILOSOPHERS
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THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS |
FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE |
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Aristotle |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Marcus Aurelius |
John Stuart Mill |
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Tom Paine |
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Cicero |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
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Diogenes of Sinope |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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Heraclitus |
Marquis de Sade |
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Plato |
Adam Smith |
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Pythagoras |
Henry David Thoreau |
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Socrates |
Voltaire |
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Virginia Woolf |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
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VERY LOGICAL, CAPTAIN |
RELIGIOUS THINKERS |
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Francis Bacon |
Thomas Aquinas |
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Jeremy Bentham |
Saint Augustine |
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Auguste Comte |
H.P. Blavatsky |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
Buddha |
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Charles Darwin |
Dante Alighieri |
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Rene Descartes |
Saint Francis of Assisi |
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Galileo Galilei |
Jesus |
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David Hume |
Lao Tzu |
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Immanuel Kant |
Muhammad |
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Isaac Newton |
Rumi |
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THE POLITICAL THINKERS |
THE ACTIVISTS |
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Edmund Burke |
Mikhail Bakunin |
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Karl von Clausewitz |
W.E.B. DuBois |
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Confucius |
Albert Einstein |
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Thomas Hobbes |
Paulo Freire |
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John Locke |
Mohandas Gandhi |
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
Emma Goldman |
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Catharine MacKinnon |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Robert Nozick |
Kate Millett |
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John Rawls |
Peter Singer |
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Alexis de Tocqueville |
Malcolm X |
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THE TOTALITARIAN MIND |
THE MARXISTS |
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Hannah Arendt |
Frantz Fanon |
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Dietrich Boenhoffer |
Che Guevara |
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Joseph Brodsky |
Antonio Gramsci |
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Elias Canetti |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin |
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Vaclav Havel |
Rosa Luxemburg |
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Joseph Heller |
Mao Zedong |
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Franz Kafka |
Herbert Marcuse |
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Primo Levi |
Karl Marx |
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Ayn Rand |
Ho Chi Minh |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Leon Trotsky |
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THE EXISTENTIALISTS |
THE PSYCHOLOGISTS |
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Simone de Beauvoir |
Bruno Bettelheim |
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Martin Buber |
Erik Erikson |
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Albert Camus |
Sigmund Freud |
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Martin Heidegger |
Erich Fromm |
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Soren Kierkegaard |
Carl Jung |
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Abraham Maslow |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
Jean Piaget |
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
Wilhelm Reich |
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Paul Tillich |
B.F. Skinner |
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Simone Weil |
John Watson |
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
CONTEMPORARY THINKERS |
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Isaiah Berlin |
Richard Dawkins |
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John Dewey |
Jacques Derrida |
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Emile Durkheim |
Carol Gilligan |
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Michel Foucault |
Germaine Greer |
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Friedrich Hayek |
Jurgen Habermas |
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Claude Levi-Strauss |
Alasdair MacIntyre |
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Margaret Mead |
Richard Rorty |
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Karl Popper |
Charles Taylor |
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Bertrand Russell |
Michael Walzer |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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THE NOVELISTS |
THE PLAYWRIGHTS |
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James Baldwin |
Samuel Beckett |
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Ray Bradbury |
Bertolt Brecht |
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Lewis Carroll |
Anton Chekhov |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Jean Cocteau |
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Aldous Huxley |
Jean Genet |
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James Joyce |
Henrik Ibsen |
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George Orwell |
Eugene Ionesco |
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Marcel Proust |
Eugene O’Neill |
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Jonathan Swift |
William Shakespeare |
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Leo Tolstoy |
Tennessee Williams |
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THE POETS |
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Guillaume Apollinaire |
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William Blake |
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Emily Dickinson |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Allan Ginsberg |
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Audre Lorde |
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Pablo Neruda |
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Syvia Plath |
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Gertrude Stein |