GRADE 12 - HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES STRAND (HUMSS) → Grade 12 - HUMSS 1st Semester

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON


Description
The course content will help and assist the students to be able to recognize the value of doing, philosophy, to distinguish opinion from truth, to demonstrate the virtues of prudence and frugality and to reflect on the meaning of one's life.
Content
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Doing Philosophy
  • Methods of philosophizing
  • Methods of philosophizing
  • TEST
  • The human person as an embodied spirit
  • The human person in their environment
  • PHILOSOPHY - Hegel
  • PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
  • Activity
  • PHILOSOPHY - Sartre
  • Viktor Frankl: Life Changing Quotes (Man's Search For Meaning)
  • assignment
  • PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHY
  • PHILOSOPHY - Sartre
  • PHILOSOPHY - Nietzsche
  • Why Socrates Hated Democracy
  • PHILOSOPHY - Aristotle
  • POLITICAL THEORY - Karl Marx
  • PHILOSOPHY - Plato
  • Albert Camus - The Plague
  • Test
  • Why We Pick Difficult Partners
  • Machiavelli’s Advice For Nice Guys
  • PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant
  • How To Choose A Partner Wisely
  • On Disliking Oneself
  • Higher Consciousness
  • How Romantic Attachment Works
  • SOCIOLOGY - Margaret Mead
  • Alternatives To a Standard Relationship
  • 5 Ways to Spot Emotional Immaturity
  • How to Make People Feel Good About Themselves
  • Why Voltaire Said: You Must Cultivate Your Own Garden
  • Exam
  • PERSONHOOD
  • Personhood
  • Arguments Against Personal Identity
  • Perspectives on Death
  • Anselm & the Argument for God
  • Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience
  • The Meaning of Knowledge
  • Locke, Berkeley, & Empiricism
  • Cartesian Skepticism - Neo, Meet Rene
  • Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality
  • Test
  • ON PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT
  • How to Argue - Philosophical Reasoning
  • Metaethics
  • Utilitarianism
  • Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theories, & Epistemic Responsibility
  • Social Thinking
  • Consciousness
  • Perceiving is Believing
  • Brief Intro to the Philosophy Of The Human Person
  • Exam
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed