Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate proficiency in critical thinking
- Demonstrate understanding of Global Social Responsibility
- Recognize the relationships between cultural expressions and their contexts
- Understand cultural expressions
- Interpret and evaluate cultural artifacts and/or their contexts for significance
- Recognize concepts in metaphysics, axiology, and epistemology and the context of their development
- Comprehend the scope of philosophic inquiry and how beliefs are formed and justified especially within a particular cultural construct
- Understand the principles of freedom, determinism and moral responsibility in human interaction
Module Objectives
Upon completion of this module the student will be able to:
- Define ontology and describe its related classifications in the history of ideas
- Contrast Materialism from Idealism; Define and compare Monism, Dualism, and Pluralism
- State the difference between a human person and a human being
- Define Atman
- Distinguish the ego theory of the self from the bundle theory
- Explain the mind/body problem(1)
Readings and Resources
- Plato, Republic Section 506c — 520a from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
- Metaphysics: Ship of Theseus from Wikipedia.
Supplemental Materials
(Note: These materials are considered supplemental and thus are not used for assessment purposes.)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website
- Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy # 4 by CrashCourse
- “Man, as Project,” by Ortega y Gasset and translated by Samuel P. Moody
- Philosophy — Metaphysics: Ship of Theseus [HD] by Wireless Philosophy
- A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind — Session One: Identity Theory and Why It Won’t Work by Marianne Talbot
