Philosophers/Deep Thinkers

Philosophers/Deep Thinkers

<p>Philosophers/Deep Thinkers Class Presentation</p><p>Choose a book by or about a philosopher of your choice. You may choose one from any time period and related to any discipline. The philosopher does not need to appear in our text. Read the work by or about the philosopher in order to make a presentation about the philosopher and his (or her) theory to the class. In addition to a verbal presentation, you should also include handouts (make sure they are 3- hole punched) for me and the entire class. You should plan to use the overhead projector for some sort of visual presentation. Your presentation should be approximately 5 minutes in length.</p><p>Presentations will be made the week of September 16.</p><p>There will be no written essay submitted to me for this assignment.</p><p>I will have a sign up sheet beginning tomorrow. No two people may sign up for the same philosopher, so have a second choice ready.</p><p>The points you will want to include in your presentation are:</p><p>A brief biography Main philosophical theory The Philosopher’s rhetorical style </p><p>Some potential philosophers include (but are not limited to):</p><p>Francis Bacon Roland Barthes Mary Catherin Bateson K.C. Cole Charles Darwin Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Feynman Benjamin Franklin Sigmund Freud John Lewis Gaddis Thomas Jefferson Yoshida Kenko Martin Luther King, Jr. Machiavelli Karl Marx H. L. Mencken Plat Elizabeth Cady Stanton Henry David Thoreau Mary Wollstonecraft Bonhoeffer Aristotle Socrates Rene Descartes John Stuart Mill Hannah Arendt Nietsche Immanuel Kant William James Betrand Russell Jacques Maritain Paul Tillich Hypatia Simone de Beauvoir Daniel Dennett Marsilio Ficino Milton Friedman Claude Levi-Strauss Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Gottfried Leibniz Soren Kierkegaard David Hume Carl Gustav Jung Jeremy Bentham Albert Einstein Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heraclitus Maurice Merleau-Ponty St. Augustine Mahatma Gandhi Noam Chomsky Jacques Derrida Rudolf Steiner Thich Nhat Hanh Adrienne Rich Bernard Williams Brahmagupta Sadhu Sundar Singh Philosopher Class Presentation Rubric</p><p>Student______Date Presented ______</p><p>Time Began ______Time Finished ______</p><p>Philsopher ______</p><p>______Handout provided? Y N (worth 20 points)</p><p>______Projector used? Y N (worth 5 points)</p><p>______Other Resources used? (worth 5 points)</p><p>Points Addressed:</p><p>______Biography (worth 10 points)</p><p>______Philosophical theory discussed in book (worth 25 points)</p><p>______The Philosopher’s rhetoric (worth 20 points)</p><p>______Presentation Style (worth 15 points)</p><p>Grade for Presentation ______/100 </p>

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