By the end of this class, you will have created a commonplace book for a specific theme which you can use as a launchpad for new ideas and innovative thinking. In the discussion board, please do share a photo of a page from your commonplace, and/or a 50 word summary where you have synthesised your thoughts.

You will:

Choose a topic to research.
Create a commonplace book. Ideally, it would be great to see some of your pages in the discussion board.
Link your sources together. Again, it would be lovely to read your 50-word synthesised summaries in the discussion board.
Think about how you can applying this thinking, and possibly share your ideas in the discussion board.

Further Resources:

"John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books" (1685)

Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks.

Simon Sinek's TED Talk "Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action".

The Dawn of Day by Nietzsche (1881).

"Nietzsche on Slow Reading" by Tyler Shaw.

Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono (2009).

"Synoptic vision: Metatheory, conceptualisation, and critical realism" by J. Frauley (2017).

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer.

What is a Hackathon? (video by Bernard Marr).

References:

Smyth, Adam. "Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits". Women and Writing, c. 1340-c. 1650, 2010, DOI:10.1017/9781846158575.006.

Whistler, Daniel. "The Experience of Reading Philosophy". Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 2022.

Dodson, George. "The Synoptic Mind: An Ideal of Leadership". Cambridge UP, 1911.

Caroline Donahue

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