Duarte UGPhilEd Fall 2016 Unit 1 Exam Preview.docx

Introduction to Philosophy of Education FDED 127, Fall 2016 Hofstra University Professor Eduardo Duarte, Ph.D. Unit 1: Introduction to the Education of Philosophy/Education as the Practice of Freedom: Exam Preview Our first unit exam will be tomorrow, Thursday, October 6th. You will be asked to select and respond to 4 from the 8 prompts/questions listed below. The assessment criteria organizing this exam will follow the Harvard < >University of Southern California word length set for “short answer” and the expectation is that each of your responses will be no fewer than 150 and no longer than 250 words, which is the equivalent of one solid paragraph. You will not be penalized if you exceed 250, but will be penalized if you don’t reach the 150 threshold. The questions/prompts will appear at the beginning of Thursday’s scheduled class time on a designated Blackboard Discussion Board Forum. When you complete the exam please send it to me via email to: Eduardo.m.duarte@hofstra.edu. (note: any exam submitted after 11:58pm on Thursday October 6th will receive an automatic and non-negotiable “F”.) Identify an exemplary work of art and briefly describe its emancipatory power to contribute to the formation of the philosopher, artist and/or saint in you. Nietzsche famously wrote, “Without music life would be an error.” Translate and explicate. In Plato’s allegory the liberated prisoner is compelled to return to the cave. Why? Palabras entre nosotros – words between us. What are examples of such words and how do they contribute to our philosophical education? Place Ranciere’s “Me too, I am an [artist]!” within the philosophical narrative we encounter in the Plato and Nietzsche material we have studied and show how this statement might operate therein. A translation of Nietzsche’s “our educators can only be our liberators” is “our instructors can only be our oppressors.” Explicate. Compare and contrast Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Nietzsche’s “Parable of the Three Metamorposes.” The liberator in Plato’s allegory is assumed to be Plato’s teacher Socrates, the same philosopher whom Ranciere harshly criticizes. What is Ranciere’s critique, and apply it to the philosophical educator depicted in Plato’s allegory.