Western Philosophy Study Guide

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History of the western philosophy
INTRODUCTION:

In this course we will analyze various important theories in philosophy, comparing and contrasting them as we use those theories to answer to several philosophical questions. After a short introduction to what philosophy is, what an argument is, and the significance of philosophy, we will go over the perspectives of many different well-known philosophers, including, but not limited to, the following Philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, George Berkeley, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, and others

COURSE DESCRIPTION: philosophers and topics that build the kernel of the Western philosophy from the ancient Greek philosophers …show more content…

Also, we will examine the topics concerning Knowledge and perception, determinism, freedom, and religion. Philosophers and philosophies to be studied in this course include :Aristotle ; Plato ; Socrates ; J. Locke & Empiricism ; Nietzsche; Augustine ; Kant ; Descartes, Spinoza & Rationalism ; W. James & Pragmatism; Heidegger, Sartre & Existentialism; Phenomenology and The rise of Analytic Philosophy ; Philosophy today. We will strive to understand Western culture thoroughly by discussing the core of philosophy in that culture.
OBJECTIVES:
In this course students will increase understanding and appreciation of what the fundamental issues are in philosophy, how some philosophers have given the answers to these questions and students will take steps to come up with their own thoughts to these questions . In this course …show more content…

(These are general techniques that you can use to other different fields of study as well, and so will help advance your general reading, listening and studying methods.)
• students will be taught about the central areas or sub-fields in philosophy, the controversy that arise in each field, as well as the significance of reasoning, experience and perception for each area.
• students will enhance their rational and critical thinking skills. students will begin to see more profoundly the various ways that people contradict on such things as what is the right or wrong thing to do or what we really know and what we don’t.
• students will learn to see how the continued learning of philosophy can improve their notion of Western culture and diverse angles of it, such as religion, literature, politics, arts and science, politics and. Students of Western philosophy frequently say that this course has helped them to better appreciate and understand Western culture.
For example, study of American pragmatism may lead students to better comprehend the importance of individual ideas and expression and how ideas are examined through social practices in western culture.
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