“Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world, and defines himself afterwards.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

similar topics

• Would you sacrifice one person to save five, and does it change if that one person is your sibling?
• The lady or the tiger: a princess's lover must choose between two doors, one hiding death, the other a beautiful woman he would be made to marry. The princess knows which is which, and she signals him. Does jealousy win, or love? Is this a dilemma with no answer at all?
• The Münchhausen trilemma: if every claim is proven by another claim, how do we stop the infinite regress? Knowledge is either circular, endless, or resting on an unprovable assumption. Which can we accept?
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
• Kant's formula of humanity: where is the line between using someone as a means to an end and respecting them as a person? Why does human dignity demand that we never treat anyone merely as a tool?