Admittedly difficult to read, students must wrestle with the close reasoning of the supreme scholastic. They are then asked to respond to this original work and to examine the validity of the logic, the persuasiveness of the reasoning, the effectiveness of the argument. Self-assessment occurs on various levels. Psychologically, a mature persons should be able to see themselves as do others. Logically, a mature person should be able to judge his or her work as objectively as do others.
Reality checks are indeed important tests of our maturity.
For these reason, I include such tests within this course. Then they go to a personality profile test, The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, at a hypertext-linked site and take a test that objectively places them into 16 types of profiles. I then ask whether their original assessment of themselves coincided with the external assessment. B. Logical assessment, perhaps, is more difficult but equally important. And it is for this reason that I have included 21 essays in this course.