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Slide2Everyone needs a laptop at the beginning of class. Login and be ready to go ASAP!
Do Now!
Slide3Slide4Think criticallyAsk the right
questions
Unit Goals
Slide5Slide6The Allegory of the Cave (Plato)Paradoxes
Lucy
Matrix
Interstellar
“Babel”
The
Stranger
“The Library of Babel” (Borges)Absurdist art Absurdism/Existentialism webquest
Resources
Slide7What is meaning (of existence)?Is authenticity in existence desirable? Why? Why not?
What do you expect of people?
How do you define your morals? Do you project your morals onto others? Are you justified in doing this?
Some Philosophical Questions We Considered in Class
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Slide9How To Make An Effective Argument?
Slide10An arguable claim
Evidence/support
Credible sources
Counterclaim
The opposing claim
Why the opposing claim is valid but not as valid as your claim
Analysis
Why your evidence supports your claim; therefore, why your claim is validEffective Arguments Include…
Slide11Don’t use Meursault’s apathy toward life as justification to argue for Camus’ apathy toward life and literature.
Don’t use
The Stranger’s
superficial themes about Absurdity & existentialism (pointlessness of life) as justification for not studying philosophy in literature.
In either cases, you would be
misreading
the text.
Avoid these Classic Pitfalls of Reading
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