World Philosophies (COMPLETE - COURSE)
Description
Introductory Philosophy courses familiarize students with the major questions and figures in the vast history of philosophy. This content is meant to give students a greater understanding of human experience through the examination of concepts such as reality, knowledge and value.
This particular course content provides a more diverse and engaging introduction to the major areas of philosophy. It includes content from the canonical West as well as from Indian, Chinese, Greek, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Spanish, Latin-American, and African traditions.
This Editable Course Bundle includes:
✓ 9 Stylized + Animated PowerPoint Presentations
✓ Final Review Sheet & Final Exam Questions
✓ BONUSES:
- Sample Syllabus
- 2 Worksheets (Latinx & African Philosophy)
TOPICS: Global Theories of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Axiology / Ethics, + Religion in...
- Indian philosophy (non-Western)
- Chinese philosophy (non-Western)
- Ancient Greek and Early Modern philosophy (Western)
- Jewish philosophy (Western)
- Islamic philosophy (non-Western)
- Latinx philosophy (Western)
- African philosophy (non-Western)
DETAILS:
- Philosophy: what it is, the value of philosophy, and the Socratic Method
- Areas of Philosophy:
- Logic: assessing arguments
- Deductive (validity, soundness) vs. inductive (strength, cogency)
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Axiology:
- Ethics: normative vs. descriptive, objective vs. relative, action-based vs. agent-based theories, applying the theories to thought experiments
- Logic: assessing arguments
- What makes an action right or a person virtuous
- Normative Ethical Theories:
- Consequentialism: ethical egoism and utilitarianism
- Deontology: Kantian and Divine command theory
- Virtue ethics and Feminist care ethics
- Epistemology: knowledge and justification
- What can we know and how do we come to know it
- JTB account of knowledge
- Infinite regress problem of justification
- Internalism vs. externalism
- Foundationalism vs. Coherentism
- Rationalism vs. empiricism (a priori vs. a posteriori)
- Types of skepticism
- Metaphysics: ontology
- What exists and what it is like
- Framework for determining what exists (i.e., connection of language to what exists)
- Is reality mind-dependent or mind-independent?
- Philosophy of Mind: the mind-body problem (types of dualism, materialism, identity theory, etc)
- Philosophy of Religion:
- Arguments for God’s existence (cosmological, teleological, ontological, argument from miracles/religious experience)
- Pragmatic faith
- The problem of evil and theodicies
- Basic tenets of Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism)
- For each of the areas above, make sure to know the primary philosophical: (i) questions, (ii) theories advocated for, (iii) problems identified, and (iv) responses given [to problems] for each of the following:
- Indian philosophy (non-Western)
- Chinese philosophy (non-Western)
- Ancient Greek and Early Modern philosophy (Western)
- Jewish philosophy (Western)
- Islamic philosophy (non-Western)
- Latinx philosophy (Western)
- African philosophy (non-Western)
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