Reflection Essay (worth 25 points) Your prompt is the same as the original baseline question: What does philosophy mean to you? I'd like you to approach this question in three parts. I expect you can get the first two done in two properly formatted pages. The third has no length limit. Part One: What does philosophy mean to you? This is identical to the baseline question, but instead of merely defining the word, dive deeper into what meaning it has for you personally. You've now had about fifteen weeks of practicing philosophy as an activity. Is that something you want to keep doing, or something you never want to do again? Has it contributed some value to your intellectual life, or has it been a waste of time? Has it formed habits? Opened windows? Broken anything loose? Pinned anything down? Part Two: Did philosophy ever make it out of our class and into the wild? What I mean by this is, did any of the ideas we've studied ever make an appearance in your life outside of class? Conversations with roommates or parents, maybe, or... well, you tell me. Part Three: Your personal "Aha!" highlight reel. What I'm looking for is moments of philosophical development-namely, moments when your thinking changed in a way that it might never go back. Maybe a cherished belief of yours got up. Maybe you accidentally dug up an unexamined assumption and were shaken forced to examine it. Maybe a question you've wondered about for a long time got answered, or maybe a thing you've never questioned before is now a thing you wonder about. Maybe you've resolved some cognitive dissonance you used to have, or maybe you've discovered new dissonance in your beliefs. Maybe one of our questions "makes your brain hurt," and you resolved that or you didn't. The list in part three can be as long as you like. Look over the schedule to refresh your memory on our discussion topics, and look over your past essays to jog your memory too. Your answers to parts I and II might also prepare you with food for thought for part III. VERY IMPORTANT: If you do not format this assignment correctly, I cannot read it. If I cannot read it, you get zero points and you will almost certainly fail the course. Use 14-point font, double-spaced, and use paragraphs correctly. If you are using a web-based word processor like Google Docs, print your paper, then hold it up to this one to see if the font sizes are the same. Google Docs and other online apps often print in page layout or screen view mode, which increases the margins and shrinks the font size. If you choose the wrong print setting, your font is too small and I cannot read it. Your stapled hard copy is due at my office (HM 476) by