Epicurus:

1.  What is "ataraxia"?  How is it related to Aristotle's notion of happiness?  How is it different?
2.  What are the first principles of the good life?

Emerson:

1.  What does Emerson mean by the term 'self reliance'?
2.  What is the projection of ultimate reality?
3.  What is the ultimate authority, for Emerson?
4.  What is Emerson's position on logical consistency?
5.  How does Emerson conceive of virtue?
6.  What are the three primary facets of Emersonian Transcendentalism?

Marx:

1.  Why do workers become more like "commodities" the more they create?
2. What is capital?
3.  What is Marx's position regarding the wages of labor?
4.  What are the major forms of alienation?  How do they occur?
5. Why is Communism the "negation of the negation"?
6.  What is the objectification of labor?

Thoreau:

1.  What is the primary function of government, for Thoreau?
2. Why did he say that government is best that governs least?
3.  What is the role of individual conscience?
4.  Why and how is virtue diminished in our society?