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Lisa, The "Introducing..." series of non-fiction comics is great: http://www.introducingbooks.com/book It's a series of comic-book style intros to academic topics. Many are about philosophers or concepts in philosophy. The series is inspired by the 1970s books by the Mexican cartoonist/intellectual Rius whose /Cuba for Beginners/ and /Marx for Beginners /were probably the first non-fiction comis of this type to hit the mass market in the U.S. Have fun, Henry Pisciotta Penn State On 8/4/2010 9:38 PM, Lisa Schattman wrote: > Hello collective brain, > > I'm looking for books on philosophy, values and/or ethics that could > be used in a college-level course and might appeal to visual learners. > > Here's the context ... the Design Institute of San Diego offers a BFA > in Interior Design. The "general ed" courses make it a BFA instead of > an interior design certificate, and one of the general ed classes is > Philosophy and Values. As you might guess, the design students don't > tend to put the general ed classes at the top of their priority lists, > so our program director is always working with the faculty to make > sure that those classes are as relevant and engaging as possible. > > The Philosophy and Values course is currently organized around themes, > or the big questions in life: Is knowledge possible? Can science tell > us the truth? > What is truly real? Are we free or are we determined? What/Who am I? > Is there a God? How can I know what is right? What makes a just > society? What is art? (etc.). The readings come from two anthologies > that are required texts for the course: > -- Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader by Gary E. Kessler > -- Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy by G. Lee Bowie, > Meredith W. Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon > > Almost all of the readings are on the dense side -- Plato, Aristotle, > Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, John Stuart Mill, Hume, Kant, Sartre, > Kierkegard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, et al. It includes only a > smattering of non-Western readings, including the Qu'ran, Laozi, the > Buddha, Confucius, Gandhi, and a few others. The program director > asked me if I could find any alternate books that could be used > instead of, or in addition to, the current texts. > > The only one I've found so far is a DK book ... Story of Philosophy by > Bryan Magee and Jonathan Metcalf. It obviously couldn't be the only > resource used for a college-level course, but maybe it would provide > an overview or framework that the students could refer to as they read > the primary sources? > > If you have any suggestions at all ... books, websites, exercises, > teaching strategies, anything! ... I would be very grateful to read > them. I'll compile the results if I get off-list responses. > > Thanks! > Lisa > > --- > Lisa Hazel Schattman > Librarian > Design Institute of San Diego > http://disd.edu/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative > matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L > Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~