Term paper topic:
Explain how the Yin-Yang way of thinking (the Yin-Yang model of how to look at contraries) together with
the Hegelian model can help you look at distinct approaches to either one issue in your own area of study
or one issue/event in public areas of contemporary times or one specific issue in philosophy.
Required steps/contents and hints:
Step (1):
Briefly present (no more than) major points of the Yin-Yang way of thinking, especially its distinct crucial features
(emphases) in contrast to the distinct crucial features (emphases) of the Hegelian model (also briefly presented), as
they are specified and explained in this class. [1 page]
Step (2):
Identify and present one (controversial) issue (about an object of study under your examination, either in
your own area of study, or in public areas of contemporary times, such as the issue of gun-control, the issue of
immigrants, etc.) to which there are two (major) distinct seemingly opposing or incompatible approaches (such as
for vs. against gun-control) under your examination; [1 page]
briefly present each of the two distinct approaches: Identify and present some element(s) in each approach
that you would render reasonable or correct (for example, its perspective dimension that is eligible in the sense
that it points to and captures some aspect of the object of study that needs due attention/treatment, rather than being
ignored, in a more complete account of the object of study); Identify and present some element(s) in each
approach that you would render unreasonable or incorrect (e.g., its guiding-principle dimension regarding how to
look at relation between its own eligible perspective and the eligible perspective from the other approach might be
inadequate when it dismisses other eligible perspectives).
