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Here is the Barking up the Wrong Tree blog , from which I showed an article in class. It's cool!

(Just a reminder: check the date and title to make sure that this is the assignment for which you are looking. I write in the past tense even when the class hasn't yet happened). Today, we discussed how the homework went: the successes and failures, what it was like. I collected the journal entries. I presented this blog entry on psychological tricks that the Stoics used to modify their behavior that modern research seems to support. Then we talked about logical fallacies; I introduced the idea, gave some examples, and we looked at this poster. Your homework is to pick (your grade - 3) fallacies* you find interesting - the poster is a good place to look for some. Type out the name and a description of the fallacies. Put them into your own words. Give an example of them - that is, a pretend conversation in which they appear. To be clear - this assignment should be typed. If you can, print it. If not, email it to me , and make sure the subject of the email clearly identifie

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First, you demonstrated you did the reading by filling in an entrance slip. Then we discussed the reading. Next, there was this presentation on Stoicism and Epicureanism .  This is the last slide, which has the homework assignment: Slides 9 and 22, respectfully, have the 5 categories to evaluate yourself on if you choose Epicureanism or Stoicism. If you need inspiration, here are quotes (the first two are for Epicureans, the second two are for Stoics): Epicurus Quotes Lucretius Quotes Marcus Aurelius Quotes Epictetus Quotes "Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control. In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions

ISRP Day 3 Plan homework due Socrates 5 panel comic homework assigned: read Plato and Aristotle summaries. Schedule: minutes activity 10 Take seats. HW check (comic). See Liz if needed. 10 Share comics - take picture, email, show on tv 25 presentation - The Intellectual Children of Socrates I- Plato and Aristotle 5 explain homework (reading) and dismissal procedure (clean up and push your chairs in!!) 10 exit slip and dismissal presentation: Understand the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (based on this chart) summarized by this picture - plato points up, aristotle points down deductive vs inductive intro Here is a link to the presentation from class.