MON 7/3 Conversation in Bryant Park - Topic Question by Popular Vote (Host:Yen)
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Look for me by the table with the yellow table cloth by the Fountain in Bryant Park (see photos below).
(7/3 - If the weather is bad tonight between 6:30-8:30, we will be inside in the upstairs dining area of the Bryant Park Whole Foods on 6th AVE & 41 ST. At the top of the UP escalator, make a right U-Turn and walk to the other side of the store and into our tables. I'll have a yellow tablecloth draped over a chair. Please update your RSVP if you cannot attend tonight. Thank you.)
Purpose: Meetup and discuss a topic question agreed on by participants' using Christopher Phillips' format. Contribute a topic question for the vote. (e.g. Previously proposed questions: How can we better discern truth? What is the meaning of life? What is the best moral system i.e. right and wrong? Is there such thing as a soul? What happened to the traditional family? What conventional wisdom is now obsolete? Are abortions moral, etc.)
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We'll be using Christopher Phillips & Cecilia Chapa Phillips format, from http://www.philosopher.org
"How do we decide on a question for discussion? Ask the participants for questions. Encourage them to propose for Socratic discourse any question that is on their minds. Their questions don't at all have to be traditional ones. Read all the questions aloud to the participants, and then have two votes: The first time around, ask them to vote on any of the questions listed -- meaning they can vote more than once. But ask them to vote only for those questions that leave them feeling the least expert and the most curious and perplexed -- because we've found again and again that those questions that leave you feeling that the ground is shaking a little bit under your feet are those that are most worth interrogating Socratically (whereas, if you vote for a question in which you already think you know "the answer," it will be a very empty exercise). Then, vote a second time, on those two or three questions that were the top vote-getters during the first round. This time, the participants can only vote once (the facilitator does not vote -- if there's a tie, flip a coin to decide the winning question). Chose that question which gets the most votes."