Debate Final: Personal Philosophy Assignment

Ralph Waldo Emerson opened his essay Nature by asking:

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? 

Your assignment is to develop your own philosophy of insight and not tradition, to write your own philosophy. The assignment and presentation will be do the day of the final.

The assignment sheet is located here.