Ancient Philosophy 101-Sign Up

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ANCEIENT PHILOSOPHY 101-SIGN UP

Hello everybody. I'm Cazalius Lodra, but you can call me Caz. I'm going to be teaching a course of ancient philosophy, which will include interactive debates, essays,

and wonderment assignments. I'll let you know about these in a few minutes. First, let's deal with the basics:

~COURSE: Ancient Philosophy

~START DATE: 18th March, 2015.

~SYLLABUS:
+What is Philosophy?
+The Ancient world.... How Ancient?
+Some important contributions of Greece to philosophy.
+Explicit Lecture on Aristotle, Socrates and Plato.
+The contribution of Asia (India and China specifically) to philosophy.
+Explicit Lecture on Siddartha Gautam, Confucious and Mahavir.
+Religion and Philosophy.

~TIME PERIOD:
+One lecture every three days.
+One Wonderment Assignment that will continue throughout.
+One essay after lecture 2, one after lecture 4, and one

after lecture 6.
+Total Time : 1 month (plus-minus a week)

~DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:
60%- Attendence
20%- Essays
20%- Wonderment Assignment
Note: Keep posting queries and doubts after ech lecture, and also answer some of your peers' if you understand their query. Being interactive is important.

I hope everybody signs up, and gets to learn something, and to teach me something as well. Ancient Philosophy is very interesting, when done in the right perspective. So, that's about it. Sign up in this thread. Feel free to ask me any questions about the course.

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WONDERMENT ASSIGNMENT: I'm sure many of us have questions that deal with philosophy. I have encountered a debate thread which asks, "What is Life?" Many of us have such questions. A wonderment assignment is an assignment which asks that question, on paper, and through this course, answer it. The question(s) that you have should be written, and a report should be written about it, in about 900-1000 words, trying to either:
1) Answer the question, or
2) Analyse the teachings and improvise the question.

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I'll sign up. I have a fairly extensive knowledge of modern philosophy (post-Nietzsche) but this sounds interesting. Thanks for doing this!

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No Problem! but may I remind you that if you don't invite atleast three more people, this will go waste, so yes, I think you can convince people!