Philosophy of the Human person

Paper must include all 3 topics listed below

TOPICS:

1. What is the soul?

2. The infinite openness of the human mind

3. Human nature and social life

- All three topics are mandatory. You cannot choose only one or two.

- This exam is comprehensive; make sure that you cover the whole material that we have read and discussed in class.

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- Please give all the data of a quotation (author, title, editor, year, and page)

- The minimum of pages is 7-8. Do not write less than 7 pages. Do not use graphical tricks to make the paper seem long. Line: 1.5. Character: 12 pt.

- Formulate arguments and counterarguments.

- When formulating counterarguments, please make sure that you also answer them. Do not simply throw counterarguments into the text and then pass to another subject.

- Give your own examples, not the ones given in class. Do not give examples from movies discussed in class (I will take off half letter if you do it: this exam is not a copy/paste of class notes! The final paper is supposed to make you work with your own mind.)

- You do not need an elaborated introduction and an elaborated conclusion for each topic.- Please treat each question separately and indicate the question before answering it. Each question – 2 pages. However, all questions must be included in one paper, stapled (do not submit three different papers, one for each question).

- In treating the topics, please combine more readings that are relevant to that topic: do not refer to just one reading. This exam is like a puzzle: you have to put together information from different texts in order to find the proper answer for one question.

- Speak in the first person, but do not abuse the word I: find instead some elegant ways to convey your opinion: adjectives, adverbs. Ex: Plato's idea is convincing; Aquinas' theory bears some difficulties; Hobbes' view of human nature is hard to accept.

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The list below makes reference to the material covered in class. It might help with writing the paper.

- Plato, Apology, 29d-42 (p. 34-44): Wisdom, excellence and death

-Plato, Apology, 29d-42 (p. 34-44) “Unexamined life is not worth living” – movie discussion: Forrest Gump, Hannah and her sisters

- Plato, Republic Ch. 3 – Fundamentals of inner politics (analogy city-soul) 368a-376c

- Plato, Republic Ch. 9 The supremacy of good (human condition) 508 c- 521 a (p. 235-248): analogy with the sun, analogy of the line, myth of the cave

- Plato, Republic Ch. 9, the myth of the cave. Movie discussion: Truman show, Adele H., Matrix

- Aristotle De anima, The nature of the soul p. 155-164

- Aristotle De anima, Sense-perception & Imagination p.189-200

-Aristotle, De anima, Intellect, p. 201-210

-St.AugustineConfessions Book One, Finding God in Oneself, p. 3-8

- Augustine, Confessions, Book One, Original sin, p. 8-9, p. 20-21

- Augustine, Confessions,  Book Ten, memory p. 195-to the end

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa of the Summa, soul and body, p. 243-251, 252-260

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa of the Summa, will p. 289-296

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa of the Summa, free-will&predestination p. 297-300

-  Movie discussion: Sliding doors on predestination

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa of the Summa,  evil p. 208-218

-  Training: How to write a philosophical paper

-  Hobbes, Leviathan

- Maritain, Christianity and Democracy (on Blackboard)–human nature and politics

- Maritain,  Person and property

            Marx, Economic writings – on alienated labor

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