<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>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)…</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>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…</p>