Supplemental classes?

Personally I'd take either the philosophy or the religion class. Both would be useful in your Jedi path and both could be a lot of fun depending on the professor and the exact material covered. I took one philosophy course in college that focused mainly on logic and reasoning and it was a blast. (We once had an debate about situations of justifiable homicide and I successfully used the movie Die Hard as an example. We had a fun class) The religion class could cover a lot of the fun parts of religions. I've found that religious history can be super fun when it's not being bogged down with zealousness. Why do you think the Indiana Jones movies were so cool?

In the end do whatever feels right for you though, or whatever fits best into your schedule. :laugh:

The question is not necessarily what makes you a better Jedi, but perhaps more so, what makes you a better person.

Isn't that the bottom line?

Wherever you enroll, you will bring something good to the class.

Learn the content thoroughly.
Learn to think critically.

Believe that you have something valuable to share, even if it is a question.

I suggest this sequence:

• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Psychology
• Religion
• Anthropology

Alan wrote: I suggest this sequence:

• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Psychology
• Religion
• Anthropology

Hehe, hey that is the exact opposite of my suggestion :lol: :huh:

Which is interesting because (despite run a different direction) its the same relationship of subjects.

I went the other way because I thought it would be easier to relate and form a set of examples of human condition in anthropology with real world examples, then progress to the systematic cultural refinement of particular transformative ideals into religion, leading to particular shaped human conditions and how to measure them as psychology and finally a critical analysis in hard logic terms of all that matter finally as philosophy.

I guess if philosophy and psychology comes easy then it would give one the tools to assess material in rigor which can then be applied through various levels of material. Usually I am a fan of learning tools first, so I guess a way to decide which way is better is how much interest and time can be applied to whichever is the most foreign/new and do the more familiar or interesting stuff first. Interesting
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My rather soft criteria: from foundational (Philosophy and Ethics) through the various scientific applications. The academic study of religion or a philosophy of religion course could be last on this list.

Something I've always wanted to do was go through Joseph Campbell's recordings with a fresh 21st century perspective. He talks a lot about mythology which I know nothing about so I'd have to go take some college courses to come up to speed. The reason for this is because we know so much more nowadays and it's very easy to look things up online. It might even turn up a few errors...

For the past couple of years, Hero With A Thousand Faces has been one of the required texts in my World Mythology course. The other text is The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade. Next semester, I've chosen another text (The Myth and Ritual Theory) as the text and will use my notes on Campbell and Eliade as the basis of my lesson plans. There are many excellent texts on the meaning and interpretation of myth including other books by both Campbell and Eliade.