Philosophy
Big Questions: What is Philosophy? What is the purpose of Philosophy? How should I live? How do I know something?
Initial work:
1. Read and summarize secondary philosophy texts (video and print)
2. Analyze present day issue from news media using ideas/concepts from summarized philosophy texts
3. Respond to relevant philosophical quote, linking ideas/concepts from philosophical and media texts studied.
Projects/Assignments:
1. Analyze a children's book/news article for philosophical significance.
2. Create a short, illustrated children's book with accompanying philosophical questions.
3. Write a Critical Review of a peer's children's book; incorporate themes and ideas studied in class and researched independently.
4. Art and Philosophy (Visual Arts, Media, Reading and Writing)
5. Debates on a social issue
Initial work:
1. Read and summarize secondary philosophy texts (video and print)
2. Analyze present day issue from news media using ideas/concepts from summarized philosophy texts
3. Respond to relevant philosophical quote, linking ideas/concepts from philosophical and media texts studied.
Projects/Assignments:
1. Analyze a children's book/news article for philosophical significance.
2. Create a short, illustrated children's book with accompanying philosophical questions.
3. Write a Critical Review of a peer's children's book; incorporate themes and ideas studied in class and researched independently.
4. Art and Philosophy (Visual Arts, Media, Reading and Writing)
5. Debates on a social issue
Assessments
1. Philosophical analysis of a children's book/news article (literature circles)
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| click_clack_moo_reading_questions.docx |
2. Storybook Creation Project
| create_a_childrens_book.docx |
Use Adobe Spark to create a video retelling (or imovie or AfterEffects).
Ellen and Karmen |
THE LITTLeST DINOSAUR |
Jack the ArtistWithout Our BlindfoldsThe Happiness Vial |
The Fencing CupHow the Tortoise got his ShellA Child of Books |
ROUGH Planning Examples for Children's Book
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3. Critical Review of Peer's storybook
4. Art and Philosophy Project (Visual Arts, Reading and Media)
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5. Debates
a) Preliminary Debate work: Analyzing and Critiquing Claims
1. Class analysis of Gender Wage Gap (Praeger U)
2. Group analysis of Income Inequality Sun article
3. Independent analysis and literature circle of philosophical/persuasive articles (e.g. Sartre; Remembrance Day; Healthcare)
2. Group analysis of Income Inequality Sun article
3. Independent analysis and literature circle of philosophical/persuasive articles (e.g. Sartre; Remembrance Day; Healthcare)
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Analyze Online Kialo Debate Claims
https://www.kialo.com/my
b) Live Debate
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6. Remembrance Day Posters (Focus on Critical Thinking)
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Introduction to Philosophy: Thinking
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1. Critical Thinking
Utilitarian- means, fixed-ends thinking Radical - Frame-challenging, challenging of ends Divergent - other than, not in opposition |
2. Logical Thinking
Clarity Assumptions Definitions Causal links; relationships Common Fallacies |
3. Relation of Ethics and Thinking
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Implicit Bias
Personal Identity
de Beauvoir; Sartre; Camus
de Beauvoir; Sartre; Camus
Big Idea:
People make their own history [and create their own identity and give their life meaning], but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. - Karl Max
Who we are and what we do is influenced by circumstances which we recreate (and thus can change).
People make their own history [and create their own identity and give their life meaning], but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. - Karl Max
Who we are and what we do is influenced by circumstances which we recreate (and thus can change).
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CONSUMERISM AND IDENTITY
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EXISTENTIALISM
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Moral Values: Good and Evil
Nietzsche; Levinas; Kant; Arendt; Singer; Bentham
Nietzsche; Levinas; Kant; Arendt; Singer; Bentham
Prisoners' Dilemma
Rules
1. Play 10 rounds. 2. If anyone has more than 100 years time, they are automatically executed. 3. The team with the most years at the end of the time is executed, and the team with the least is given 5 pieces of candy. 4. If everyone has the same amount of time in jail, everyone gets one piece of candy. Questions: 1. How do you think the context influenced your decision? 2. How does this relate (or not) to real life? |
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Justice (Political Philosophy)
Marx; Rawls; Rousseau; Hobbes; Nozick; Adam Smith
Marx; Rawls; Rousseau; Hobbes; Nozick; Adam Smith
GOVERNMENT
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
MIGRANT JUSTICE
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Purposeful life
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Past Assignments
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