PHIL1025 — Introduction to Eastern Philosophy
PHIL 1025 - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy PHIL 1025 - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: Who am I? How should I live? What is real? What can I know? These are the perennial questions that philosophy has asked and answered for thousands of years. This course will engage these questions by focusing on the insights by Eastern philosophy (East India - Hinduism and Buddhism, China - Confucianism and Daoism, and perhaps Japanese, Korean, and Islamic/Arabic perspectives) through a variety of readings both historical and contemporary. The areas of philosophy that this course may cover are general introduction to philosophy, philosophical argumentation, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the historical development of the discipline of Eastern philosophy. MnTC Goals MnTC Goal 6 MnTC Goal 8 summarize differences between Eastern and Western thinking. summarize key ideas and arguments of Eastern philosophical frameworks. evaluate key ideas and arguments of Eastern philosophical frameworks. compare and contrast one’s individual and broader cultural beliefs and values to those of Eastern thinkers. analyze beliefs, actions, and values that originate in non-Western worldviews in a way that is critical, constructive, and open-minded. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies MnTC Goal 6 MnTC Goal 8 Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) 06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of wo
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052