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Friendship and Community Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

In the game of timelines, players must work together to place events in their correct chronological order. This game encourages teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills, making it a great way to foster friendship and build a sense of community.

  • Players must collaborate to determine the correct sequence of events
  • The game challenges players to think critically about historical timelines
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  • 385-370 BCE: Plato's Symposium discusses the nature of love and friendship
  • 4th century BCE: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics explores the role of friendship in a virtuous life
  • 44 BCE: Cicero's De Amicitia (On Friendship) examines the qualities of true friendship
  • 397-398 CE: St. Augustine's Confessions reflects on the importance of friendship in spiritual life
  • 13th century: Thomas Aquinas discusses friendship in his Summa Theologica
  • 14th-16th century: Renaissance humanists like Erasmus emphasize the value of friendship in intellectual and moral development
  • 18th century: David Hume explores the role of sympathy and benevolence in friendship in his works
  • 18th-19th century: Immanuel Kant discusses the ethical dimensions of friendship in his writings on moral philosophy
  • 1807: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit examines the role of community in self-consciousness
  • 19th century: Friedrich Nietzsche critiques traditional notions of friendship and community in his works
  • 1923: Martin Buber's I and Thou explores the nature of authentic human relationships
  • 20th century: Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy emphasizes the importance of authentic relationships in a meaningless world
  • 20th century: Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of alterity stresses the ethical responsibility towards the other in relationships
  • 20th-21st century: Martha Nussbaum's work on the capabilities approach advocates for the importance of social connections and relationships in human flourishing
  • 20th-21st century: Judith Butler's theory of performativity examines how relationships and communities are constructed through language and social norms
  • 20th-21st century: Sandra Lee Bartky's feminist philosophy critiques traditional notions of friendship and community as oppressive and exclusionary
  • 20th-21st century: Cornel West's prophetic pragmatism emphasizes the importance of community and solidarity in social justice struggles
  • 21st century: Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics explores how relationships and communities are shaped by colonialism and violence
  • 21st century: bell hooks's intersectional feminist theory advocates for the transformative power of love and community in social change

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