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Simone Weil The Need for Roots
Ghost!:
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 06:24:51 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
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Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
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Exactly! After Nietzsche, Weil seems a little anticlimatic. Personally, though, I think I'll enjoy Weil. She's quite refreshing in asking us to help others, after the focus on the individual from Callicles and Nietzsche, and to en extent even Aristotle.
We haven't read much (literally one page in) but our SAC will be after the GAT, last week of term so we do still have some time.
Is yours going to be an essay SAC?
We did essays on Nietzsche, so Weil's going to be a socratic dialogue.
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That's lucky I guess, having it after the GAT. We have until the morning of the GAT to hand in our SAC, which is a take home essay yeah :) Ohhh that's so interesting! How do you format a Socratic dialogue for a SAC?
Menang:
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 07:48:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 06:24:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 04:11:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
--- End quote ---
Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
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Exactly! After Nietzsche, Weil seems a little anticlimatic. Personally, though, I think I'll enjoy Weil. She's quite refreshing in asking us to help others, after the focus on the individual from Callicles and Nietzsche, and to en extent even Aristotle.
We haven't read much (literally one page in) but our SAC will be after the GAT, last week of term so we do still have some time.
Is yours going to be an essay SAC?
We did essays on Nietzsche, so Weil's going to be a socratic dialogue.
--- End quote ---
That's lucky I guess, having it after the GAT. We have until the morning of the GAT to hand in our SAC, which is a take home essay yeah :) Ohhh that's so interesting! How do you format a Socratic dialogue for a SAC?
--- End quote ---
Not entirely sure, yet, but we have an example.
I attached it if you wanted to have a look. :)
Also - it's a dialogue, not 100% sure if it's Socratic though... :P
Ghost!:
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 08:50:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 07:48:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 06:24:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 04:11:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
--- End quote ---
Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
--- End quote ---
Exactly! After Nietzsche, Weil seems a little anticlimatic. Personally, though, I think I'll enjoy Weil. She's quite refreshing in asking us to help others, after the focus on the individual from Callicles and Nietzsche, and to en extent even Aristotle.
We haven't read much (literally one page in) but our SAC will be after the GAT, last week of term so we do still have some time.
Is yours going to be an essay SAC?
We did essays on Nietzsche, so Weil's going to be a socratic dialogue.
--- End quote ---
That's lucky I guess, having it after the GAT. We have until the morning of the GAT to hand in our SAC, which is a take home essay yeah :) Ohhh that's so interesting! How do you format a Socratic dialogue for a SAC?
--- End quote ---
Not entirely sure, yet, but we have an example.
I attached it if you wanted to have a look. :)
Also - it's a dialogue, not 100% sure if it's Socratic though... :P
--- End quote ---
Oh wow hahaha! That seems like so much work, do you have a minimum page/word limit! Seems like by far the most enjoyable format of assessment I've seen in the majority of VCE classes, with the exception of perhaps Imaginative Context in English!
Menang:
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 09:10:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 08:50:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 07:48:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 05, 2011, 06:24:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 04:11:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
--- End quote ---
Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
--- End quote ---
Exactly! After Nietzsche, Weil seems a little anticlimatic. Personally, though, I think I'll enjoy Weil. She's quite refreshing in asking us to help others, after the focus on the individual from Callicles and Nietzsche, and to en extent even Aristotle.
We haven't read much (literally one page in) but our SAC will be after the GAT, last week of term so we do still have some time.
Is yours going to be an essay SAC?
We did essays on Nietzsche, so Weil's going to be a socratic dialogue.
--- End quote ---
That's lucky I guess, having it after the GAT. We have until the morning of the GAT to hand in our SAC, which is a take home essay yeah :) Ohhh that's so interesting! How do you format a Socratic dialogue for a SAC?
--- End quote ---
Not entirely sure, yet, but we have an example.
I attached it if you wanted to have a look. :)
Also - it's a dialogue, not 100% sure if it's Socratic though... :P
--- End quote ---
Oh wow hahaha! That seems like so much work, do you have a minimum page/word limit! Seems like by far the most enjoyable format of assessment I've seen in the majority of VCE classes, with the exception of perhaps Imaginative Context in English!
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Honestly, I don't know the details of the SAC yet. I'm not even sure if it's supposed to be done in class. I don't think so, though, because we're actually supposed to pair up for this SAC (heheh, groupwork for VCE) so I'd think that this would be done outside class time. :P
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