12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke: For due date consult course syllabus “I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary textbooks”, this is the first sentence of CS Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man(1944). In this text, Lewis is referring to the formative importance of such textbooks, the way they shape students’ hearts and minds, sometimes in unconscious and subtle ways. If Lewis were around today, he might have the same kind of doubts about our attentiveness to smartphones. We have just read the book,12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke; this might be a good tool to help you become aware of the character shaping power of smartphones. However, Reinke does not refer much to the capital vices tradition or to virtue ethics. You will remedy this situation in writing a2,000 words essay attending both aspects: capital vices tradition and Reinke’s analysis.
Your work should look something like:
1.An introduction: give an abstract of Reinke’s book (his thesis) and then, state your problem. Underline your thesis.
2.Two informative headings for the body of your essay: select one vice (and the 2 chapters referring to it) and show how the capital vice tradition’s treatment might illuminate, challenge, refine and/or enhance Reinke’s treatment.(I recommend considering sloth).
3.A conclusion in which, in light of your analysis, you make recommendations how we should live and how it relates to your (non)-commitment during our first class.
