International Black Students considered minority~!?

siavash7h
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:54:13 +0000

I appreciate it. At least it gives me confidence! Even if I don’t get in, I am proud that some great people had good views on me.

Sure, I will help as much as I can. I didn’t start the club right when I got here. Our school is on a trimester system. My Eng class started in the 2nd trimester, and I started the class after the first 6wks. We even had meetings in the summer in the local coffee shop.

I have a huge collection of books that have essays from different philosophers. I try to have practical readings as much as possible. We start our discussion with practical examples, then I try to indirectly force more abstract and theoretical ideas after a bit of discussion. But I don’t force certain ideas…I let the participants decide what they want to talk about…

There are thousands of books usually under some title like “Introductory Philosophy” or “Introduction to Philosophy” that can be helpful for a group of beginners who intend to discuss some issue.
If you are looking for more theoretical material, you can see plato.stanford.edu
This is a very good philosophy encyclopedia, but the essays are very analytical…

so far we have talked about:
1)Theology
2)Religion, its necessity, and its connection to religion
3)Ethics, and its connections to religion
4)Free-will, and it’s opposition to religion and ethics
5)Identity, internal and external identity…
6)Metaphysics(so far Monism, and Dualism…I try to have Pluralism soon…)
7)…

Each of these didn’t just take one day to talk about. For example, we talked about ethics for 5 days, each day for about 2-3 hours…we have talked about morality of war to personal morals and valuse, their conflicts with society values…

I would be happy to send you e-mails if you have questions…or you can introduce me to the peron who is trying to start a similar organization…