ENGL 2150. CLASS VIII NOTES. spr 2013

Check the assignments in my notes. We have three things coming up — the good life write-ups (on the previous blog post), 3 questions and/or statements in regards to the Diogenes reading, and your thesis statements.

ENGL 2150 CLASS VII notes. 2252013

Please pay considerable attention to these notes and attend to your thesis statements; remember to bring in a list of search terms based on the terms that concretely summarize and represent, both, your object and chosen abstraction.

ENGL 2150 CLASS VI notes assignments

ENGL 2150 Revisions II handout. spr 2013

Today, we went over the proper use of a signal phrase and involved that in an in-class writing which you should proof, revise and post below in the comments section. As well, please download the attached reading and only read the Diogenes section, not the Heraclitus section.

Guy Davenport – The Fragments of Heraclitus and Diogenes

ENGL 2150 . CLASS V notes 2 13 13

Below, you will find the next two PDF files for the next two texts we will be reading:  Ambrose Bierce’s Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary and Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary. Both these texts we will spend a week on and they will help introduce us to two things:  definition (obviously) and the cynical abilities, or, Cynicism (neither of which are “bad” things). Please download them and let your curiosity take over. They are fun reads.

Also, below, you will find the in-class work which became the homework for Monday (2/11/13), the Revision Handout I.

Voltaire – Philosophical Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce – The Unabridged Devils Dictionary

ENGL 2150. Revision Handout I

You can find my own class notes, regarding “Meno” and business ethics based on Greek/Athenian views of ethical practices, below.

ENGL2150-Notes on Platos Meno BusinessEthics

Again, remember that the interlocutor (Meno) is the agent posing the questions which lead to the paradoxes (or to further understanding). As well, comparably, the market, or the consumer, could act as interlocutor when business-ethic practices are being questioned. We’ll review, further, on Wednesday. Please take a look at my notes (above) if you have any questions.

ENGL 2150 Notes on Platos Allegory of the Cave. jan2013

Directly above, find my own notes regarding the reading — “The Allegory of The Cave”. Please, as well, write, proof and revise a response to one of the questions at the beginning of the day’s notes. Post this response in the “Leave a Reply” field of the previous blog post.