Philosophy
Topic: Writer’s choice
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The part that says “engaged at least 3 authors” you can pick “Rene Descartes, Karl Marx” and use the book “The PRince” second edition by Niccolò Machiavelli. This book was translated and edited by Robert M. Adams.
philosophy of Praxis a b _ Would like you to use Gramscu s notion o a
shaping of the world t S eing an aCtive movement of thought and action in the
affected You the mo t? engage at Ieast three authors this past semester that
en a – h 5 m Chang’ng vour perspectives, your ideas, your way of
g ging t e world YOU inhabit. You can also use the filmmaker Pontecorvo in
this context.
Some limits you-might engage: Method according to Descartes , the concept of
power and fear in Machiavelli, the concept of doing History differently in Marx,
the concept of Enlightenment in Kant, how religion could be critiqued in Freud or
in general how philosophy in its active form helps us transform the world and
not only inetrpret it.
onsidered a long meditation on Marx’s Eleventh Theses on
sophers have only interpreted the world; the point,
ansform it.”
or extra credit ( 1 to 5 points).
