Reflection Essay: Write an essay of approximately 600 words in which you reflect upon all of what you’ve learned this term and how it relates to your life and serves as a resource for living it with greater wisdom.
Below this will be all the topics covered for this term.
This week provides an
understanding of the worldwide context for Western philosophy, and some of the
basic features and historical elements of philosophy, including the essential
philosophical activity of questioning and its social and political implications.
This week provides an
understanding of the early history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to
Aristotle and situates the teachings of these Ancient Greeks within a global
context of non-Western teachings.
This week provides an
overview of ontology, cosmology, materialism, and pragmatism and their relation
to non-Western thought and belief and to modern science.
This week places philosophy
alongside the traditions and worldviews of some of the major world religions,
including Judaism and Christianity. It also introduces students to fundamental
themes, principles, and conditions of religion and religious experience.
This week our course moves
into the modern period of philosophy, in the wake of the scientific revolution.
While previous weeks have focused on what can be known, this week focuses on how things can be known.
Truth is one of the central
subjects of philosophy. It has been variously interpreted throughout
philosophical history from the classical age to the present. This week focuses on
the nature of truth and the various historical models and understandings of
what truth is.
This week explores the
limits and scope of the human experience through the notion of human nature. It
asks the basic question as to whether our nature as humans bestowed upon us by
a creator, determined by the laws of nature, or created by us through our
decisions and actions.
This week focuses on
political philosophy. In the broadest sense, politics concerns life of
individuals in the public realm. More specifically, it concerns the
relationship between the individual or groups and the state. We focus on the
ways in which individual and group life have been conceived and on how these
conceptions affect the ways in which we organize them in the public realm.
Social philosophy focuses on
the relationship of the individual and the community and the local, regional,
and global realities that determine this relationship. Questions concerning
justice figure prominently in this week’s activities.
This week focuses on ethics
as a branch of philosophy that deals with the formation of character,
obligation, freedom, and practical action. It lends special attention to virtue
ethics and business ethics.
This week focuses on Western
and non-Western aesthetics or philosophies of art. Aesthetics is a branch of
philosophy that deals with beauty, taste, and judgment. It also extends more
generally to questions concerning sense perception and lively feeling.
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