World Philosophies (COMPLETE - COURSE)

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...

1. Indian philosophy (non-Western)
2. Chinese philosophy (non-Western)
3. Ancient Greek and Early Modern philosophy (Western)
4. Jewish philosophy (Western)
5. Islamic philosophy (non-Western)
6. Latinx philosophy (Western)
7. 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
• 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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