Overview
Question 1. Please keep in mind that you can write in the first person or any other perspective when responding to these prompts. You can use personal experience or you can avoid using personal experience, whichever you prefer.
Please use direct textual evidence from the Bibliotherapy reading along with at least one of the articles from the School of Life and direct evidence from each of the three podcast episodes to respond to the following. Please respond in 20-25 sentences.
How can philosophy help us cope? Please feel free to address one or more topic(s) such as loss or anxiety or speak in general about how philosophy can be a tool for coping and dealing with life's hardships.
MATERIALS:
Reading:
1) From Bibliotherapy pg. 109-124
2) Trauma and How to Overcome It by The School of Life
3) When Someone We Love Has Died by The School of Life
4) From Philosophical Meditations pg. 10-11
Listening:
1) On Coping Part I (1:44:17)
2) On Coping Part II (56:18) (Links to an external site.)
3) On Coping Part III (14:54)
4) How can we deal with loss and grief? (26:20)
Question 2. Please use direct quotations from at least one podcast episode and from two reading sections/excerpts in our Bibliotherapy to discuss the importance of confidence and how one might work to develop it through and with philosophy. (15-20-sentences)
MATERIALS:
Reading:
1) From our Bibliotherapy book: pg. 136-150
2) From Philosophical Meditations: pg. 25-26
Listening:
1) On Fear and Confidence Part I (47:00)
2) On Fear and Confidence Part II (13:28)
3) A Practice for Building Confidence (12:27)
Viewing: It's OK to be Scared. Just Don't be AFRAID: Daily Stoic (5:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YorKaVZRi4g (Links to n external site.)
Question 3.Step 1: Identify and define your practice. Using direct textual evidence from our reading and/or from the podcast(s), pick a practice and define it (5-10 sentences).
Step 2: Using direct textual evidence, discuss how and why this might be a helpful practice. An example might be that the practice could help someone feel less anxious, calmer, more confident or that it could create more balance in life (10-12 sentences).
MATERIALS:
Reading:
1) Please read p. 99-108 in our Bibliotherapy
2) Please examine p. 15-22 in our Philosophical Meditations Book
Listening:
1) Self-Writing Guide (1:19:29)
https://anchor.fm/philosophyforeveryone/episodes/Self-Writing-Guide-eiob0d
2) Spiritual Spring Cleaning: Establish a Practice for Self-Care (17:42)
3) A Few Thoughts on Epicureanism and Zen Buddhism (47:34)
https://anchor.fm/philosophyforeveryone/episodes/Epicureanism-and-Zen-Buddhism-Part-I-elamln
4) Practices Inspired by Epicureanism and Zen Buddhism (24:53)
https://anchor.fm/philosophyforeveryone/episodes/Epicureanism-and-Zen-Buddhism-Part-II-elamjq