PHIL 120 • INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS • STEP 4

Reflection: What the Map Showed You

The last piece of Mapping Your Worldview — a separate file, submitted separately.

📌 Before You Start

Build your mind map first. This page asks what the process did to your thinking, and you can't answer that until you've made the map and looked at it.
One solid paragraph per question is the minimum. Write more if you have more to say.
When you're done, click Export Reflection to Text File. You'll get a file named something like Worldview-Reflection_YourName.txt.
That file is a separate Canvas submission from your worldview file. Do not paste it back into your worldview document, and do not add it to your NotebookLM notebook.
Your typing is saved in this browser as a convenience, not a backup. Export before you close the tab.

Haven't written your worldview reflections yet? Start on the main assignment page.

Your Reflection

Answer all three questions in your own words. These are about the process, not about ethics theory, and there are no wrong answers — only thin ones. "Nothing surprised me" is an acceptable answer only if you can explain why, in detail.

Your name (goes at the top of your exported file)

1. What surprised you?

Did the process of mapping your worldview reveal anything you hadn't thought about before? A belief you didn't know you held? A connection you'd never made? A tension you'd been quietly avoiding?

Your response — Question 1

One paragraph minimum. Be concrete about what changed, not just that something did.

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2. What was hardest?

Which layer was most difficult to articulate — what's real, how you know, what humans are, or what matters? Why that one? Was it hard because you don't know what you think, or because you do know and it's uncomfortable to say?

Your response — Question 2

One paragraph minimum. Name the specific layer and the specific difficulty.

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3. How did the map help?

Did seeing your worldview visually organized change how you understand your own thinking? If the map got something wrong about you, say so — that's a real finding, and explaining the mismatch counts.

Your response — Question 3

One paragraph minimum. Point to something specific in the map you generated.

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Export Your Reflection File

Scroll up and click Export Reflection to Text File.
Your browser downloads Worldview-Reflection_YourName.txt. Look in your Downloads folder.
Open it once to confirm all three answers are there.
Upload it to Canvas as the reflection portion of the assignment.

If the download doesn't start: use Copy All Text, paste it into a blank document, and save it as a .txt file (in Word or Google Docs, choose Save as or Download and pick Plain Text (.txt)).

What to Submit

The full assignment has three parts. This page produces the second one:

Worldview text file — Worldview-Map_YourName.txt, from the main assignment page
Reflection text file — Worldview-Reflection_YourName.txt, from this page
NotebookLM share link, pasted into the Canvas submission comment box

Before you submit the link, open it in a private/incognito window to confirm I'll be able to see it.

What Makes a Strong Reflection

Specific over general. "I realized my epistemology and my axiology don't agree about authority" beats "this made me think a lot."
Honest over impressive. Confusion described precisely is worth more than confidence performed vaguely.
About your thinking, not about the software. I don't need a review of NotebookLM. I need to know what happened in your head.
Willing to name discomfort. The most valuable sentence in this assignment is usually the one a student almost deleted.

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