Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Lesson Plan

Debate: Dialectic of Enlightenment

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will think more critically about the themes of the text from a variety of perspectives.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

The teacher should ask students to prepare for another classwide debate and divide the class into three groups. The question that students will debate will be: do the philosophies of Kant and similar philosophers lead to progress and moral and intellectual probity, or does enlightenment lead perniciously to...