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Week of 9/23
Monday – Cognition – “Drive” video on incentives and motivation for creative thinking, discussion/activity
Worldviews – Finish Darwin, Darwin Q&A due on Wednesday
Tuesday – Worldviews – “Good to be the King” Play. Play Questions due Thursday
Wednesday Lecture # 3 Revolutions in Worldviews
Further updates to come later this week…..
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us….
Catching Up: Where we are in the Government & Politics Unit
We have been in a unit on the forms of government and the philosophies of the modern political spectrum and modern American politics. Below is our key unit vocabulary by category and the lecture notes we have had so far:
1. UNIT VOCABULARY
Forms of Government & Related Terms:
Anarchy, Tyranny, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship, State of Nature, Social Contract, Natural Law, Revolution, Right of Revolution, Sovereign, Popular Sovereignty, State, Nation, Rule-Set
Political Spectrum & Related Terms:
Anarchist, Radical, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Reactionary, Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Libertarian, Populist
Philosophers & Thinkers:
Aristotle, Plato, Polybius, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Socrates, Ibn Khaldun, Confucius
2. LECTURES:
Our most recent lectures in this unit. for the origin of society and for forms of government.
Origin of civilization.
Lecture slides on origin of Western Civ political concepts
Lecture slides political spectrum
Perception vs. Reality
The students were introduced to two concepts in the last week – that Perception and Reality can be very different and that Western Civilization has two basic and opposing Worldviews on the nature of Reality itself (going back to Plato vs. Aristotle). Characters from the sci-fi movie, The Matrix, were used to illustrate the point.
After viewing material and discussion, questions were asked:
And now, simply for fun !:
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