Please read all of my notes carefully; please, as well, read last week’s notes in full. There are a few things due:  last week’s summary, this week’s summary, and you must read all of the excerpts from Flow. All will be attached, below and in previous posts. Make sure you are keeping up or there will be a quiz.

ENGL 2150 Class XVI. notes Happiness Revisited

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow

(Here, make sure to read Ch.1, the essay entitled “Happiness Revisited”; as well, make sure, at the very least, then to read the section labeled “Enjoyment and  the Quality of Life” which goes from pgs. 52 to 76)

Watch the video, below, and think on Camus’s notion that thinking readdresses how an individual sees her world.

Banksy Enters Disneyland

Class Notes:  CLASS NOTES baruch engl 2150 spr 2013 4 17 13

* New Reading:  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow

Find this week’s creative summaries, below:

In case you missed this class’s handout, find it here (or in your e-mail inbox):

ENGL 2150 spr 2013 rev 3 handout. camus summaries

And here are today’s notes:

ENGL 2150 Notes on Camus and the Absurd

ENGL 2150. class XIII Notes on Camus and The Myth o Sisyphus

ENGL 2150 summary exp and creative handout. 2013

As we switch gears and go into creative and/or expository summary modums (please read the handout care/fully), make sure you are actively reading, annotating, and engaging these next few texts, creatively and critically. No question should go unwritten or unasked. As well, find the new yet same reading attached, below.

Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

(This time, read from the Preface to the end of the essay, “An Absurd Reasoning”.)

CLASS XI Notes. 3.20.13

ENGL 2150. spr 2013 class 12

Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

(From the above text, only read the actual “Myth of Sisyphus” which begins on pg. 75 — halfway down — and ends on pg. 78 — 3/4 of the way down. It is only four pages, in total. Later, we will read the essay/section titled, “An Absurd Reasoning”. )

Again, for Wednesday, bring your peer-review partner’s essay introduction back to glass with a  grade-range given, and comments and proof-readings.

As well, read and bring the following reading to class:  Kwame Appiah – Cosmopolitanism

Please be on time and please be prepared. If you have any questions, e-mail me tomorrow before 5pm.

ENGL 2150 CLASS IV Notes. spr 2013

Kwame Anthony Appiah – The Ethics of Identity

Above, please find my class notes and your new reading, from which you should only read the final section entitled “Rooted Cosmopolitanism.” Again, do NOT read the entire book; instead, read just the last section. However, if you want to read the entire book, it is here, for you. There is no class, tomorrow, Wednesday, 3/6/13.

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.

Above, you will find the axiological list we made in response to the question:  what astonishes you.

Each student, as well, listed 3 concrete objects that he or she highly values — cars, iPods, wallets, keys, necklaces, etc… were listed.

Please print out Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave” (from the previous blog-post) and bring it to class on Wednesday; read and annotate the text and bring any questions you may have.

Enjoy the day!

ENGL 2150 SYLLABUS Spring 2013 Prof. Walker

Plato . The Allegory of the Cave

Plato . Meno