Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Lesson Plan

Discussion: The Modernity Problem

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will broaden their knowledge about the themes and background of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4

Structure:

This activity has two parts. In the first part, students should organize themselves into groups of 2-3 people, and the teacher should have them read the first chapter ("The Modernity Problem") of Robert Pippin's book Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture.

Once the class...