Comprehension Check #2

Nov 20

Pick your Professor

In class, you’ll be given a 25 question comprehension check. They questions will all be drawn from (or will be extremely similar to) the comprehension quiz questions you’ve completed for the daily readings.

We’ll cover the following topics (some of which will be review from the previous check): 

  • Question Everything (Socrates)
  • Escape Your Cave (Plato)
  • Doubt Everything (Descartes)
  • Believe Your Truth (Mill)
  • Take a Leap of Faith (James)
  • There is a God (Aquinas and Anselm)
  • Embrace the Absurd (Kierkegaard)
  • There is No God (Hume, Problem of Evil)
  • Choose Your Meaning (Jean-Paul Sartre)
  • Make Friends (Aristotle)
  • Find Meaning in Tradition (Confucius)
  • Work and the Good Life (Marx, Weber)