Link to recorded Zoom review emailed in D2L Friday. If you exceed your Exam 1 score we'll drop it and double Exam 2.
2. What do Buddhists and Stoics imply about our animal nature?
3. What did Aristotle say about money, success, fame, and relationships?
4. What view of mind and self do most psychologists and neuroscientists now support?
5. Buddhism and Stoicism both have what at their core?
6. Who kept a virtue "scorecard"?
7. What did Hierocles say about circles?
8. The most distinctive intersection of Buddhist and Stoic ethics is what?
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Macaro 9-10
1. What matters most, for Buddhists and Stoics?
2. Why was reading and memorizing emphasized in stoic meditation?
3. What was Epictetus's excellent mindfulness tip?
4. What "states" do the "four great efforts" aim at?
5. What Epicurean techniqiue attempts to balance "anticipation of doom"?
6. Seeing clearly, says Macaro, means giving up what?
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Bakewell, How to Live (Mon) 1-4
1. What form of writing did Montaigne invent?
2. What does essay mean?
3. After his accident Montaigne described his inward feelings as tranquil and sweet, a slide into ____.
4. His library represented what to Montaigne?
5. What's the difference between learning to die and learning to live?
6. What coda must we imagine attached to everything Montaigne wrote?
7. How did Montaigne's attitude towards books invert his father's?
8. What did Montaigne look for in a book (that later readers looked for in his books)?
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1. What hope did La Boetie express in his sonnet?
2. What in La Boetie's writing particularly resonated with Montaigne?
3. What two things did Stoics and Epicureans consider most important to get right?
4. What doe epekho mean?
5. When brooding on death, Montaigne apparently forgot what?
6. What image of Descartes provides a neat contrast to that of Montaigne?
7. How does Bakewell imagine Blaise Pascal, in contrast to Montaigne and the libertines?
8. What was Montaigne's "real liberty"?
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1. What hope did La Boetie express in his sonnet?
2. What in La Boetie's writing particularly resonated with Montaigne?
3. What two things did Stoics and Epicureans consider most important to get right?
4. What doe epekho mean?
5. When brooding on death, Montaigne apparently forgot what?
6. What image of Descartes provides a neat contrast to that of Montaigne?
7. How does Bakewell imagine Blaise Pascal, in contrast to Montaigne and the libertines?
8. What was Montaigne's "real liberty"?
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1. Why should the art of conversation be encouraged in children at an early age?
2. What did Montaigne think we owe other beings?
3. What did Diderot's Tahitian tell Europeans about how to be happy?
4. Pilgrimages increased to where in the 19th century?
5. What happens to people who try to rise above the human, according to Montaigne?
6. Montaigne thought what was the essence of wisdom?
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Will let you know if any questions are added from ch.13-16.
Worried about Exam #2? Do what Montaigne would do...
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By: Len Canter
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) --
As much as people often love to talk about their feelings, it might be more productive to skip the conversations and write about your worries instead, according to research done at Michigan State University (MSU).
The research, published in the journal Psychophysiology, provides the first neural evidence of the benefits of expressive writing, according to lead author Hans Schroder. He's a former MSU doctoral student who is now doing research at the Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Mass.
It turns out that writing about your stresses, anxiety and worries can free up your brain to accomplish other tasks more effectively.
Researchers have long known that constant worry uses up mental resources. It's as though anxiety is always running in the background. So when you add on, say, a stressful work project, you automatically force your brain to multitask, which is never a good thing.
In the MSU study, Schroder's team found that the participants who wrote expressively about their feelings were able to offload their worries and allow their brains to run efficiently, like a new hybrid car. On the other hand, study participants who didn't write about their feelings -- and stayed stressed -- ended up guzzling more brain gas to accomplish the same tasks, like your parents' old, inefficient clunker.
The key takeaway is that offloading worry can help you prepare for future stressful events by freeing up brain space. So, the next time you feel overwhelmed and think of taking a walk to clear your head, it might be even more helpful to crack open a journal and jot down exactly what's bothering you.
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Maybe take the walk and record your thoughts/worries?!! Sparty On!
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