Warm-up
Finish read-through of Agamemnon
Defining Virtues
- Presentation by Colin Huff
Break
Socrates Workshop II -- Self-control
- Guiding Principles for Definition:
- Establishing the range of the viturous (differences of kind and degree)
- Defining with positive terms
- Self-sufficient (albeit with other virtue-variables)
- Working earnestly with compelling objections
- Watch for definitions that are too strong; perhaps, for example, "One should always be in control of oneself."
- Independence of the Question: Wanting more than to expose an opponent's ignorance
Lunch
Improv
Scenes from Workshop -- Character-assassination campaign
- Antigone-Ismene
- Haemon-Creon
- Clytemnestra-Agamemnon
- Creon-Teiresias
Places of Power
- ways of conveying status distinctions through relative position
- power see-saw
- Blocking a Scene into Places of Power
- Finding a powerful place for your Chorus
Homework
Choose a character in a particular scene of the Agamemnon. Find three personalities (from film, for instance) for that character. How would you effectively combine those three? Post your ideas to your page.
Find five articles (from newspapers, Google news, etc.) that involve 1) loyalty, and 2) self-control (making 10 in all). Compose a definition of each virtue that fits with the articles you have found.
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