Philosophy

Course title

00597001

Philosophy

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Course description

Learn the essence of the philosophical thoughts, reading the sentences the philosopers wrote. By knowing the basic way of thinking of philosophy, you must learn to understand the profound philosophical meaning of what you learned in the subject of engineering ethics or bioethics.

Purpose of class

Learn to understand the human being and the world more profoundly, by consider philosophically the nature of material, life, or spirit of which our world is consisted. This will permit us to think over the way of get along with technology.

Goals and objectives

Make your mind free from yourself, by reexamining your fixed ideas.
Cultivate the generous mind to try to understand various values of different people or cultures.
Acquire the attitude of thinking to try to discern the essence of problems.

Language

Japanese

Class schedule

	Class schedule	HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.)	Amount of Time Required
1.	What is philosopty?	Think by yourself whether you can think or feel in the different way from that how you yourself think or feel.	150minutes
2.	Socrates: Belief and Truth	Read the materials.	150minutes
3.	Plato: Phenomena and Ideas	Read the materials.	150minutes
4.	Aristotle: Teleological point of view on nature	Read the materials.	150minutes
5.	Descarte: Dualism of mind and matter	Read the materials.	150minutes
6.	Descarte: Mechanistic point of view on nature	Read the materials.	150minutes
7.	Mid-examination John Locke: Primry and secondary nature of matter	Review the lecture 1-6	360minutes
7.		Read the materials.	150minutes
8.	Jeorge Berkeley: Idealism and Criticism of the idea of causality	Read the materials.	150minutes
9.	Immanuel Kant: Phenomena and Thing in itself	Read the materials.	150minutes
10.	Henri Bergson: Duration	Read the materials.	150minutes
11.	Henri Bergson: Superficial and Profound Self	Read the materials.	150minutes
12.	Carl Gustav Jung: Consciousness and Unconsciousness	Read the materials.	150minutes
13.	Carl Gustav Jung: Making unconsciousness conscious(Self-realization)	Read the materials.	150minutes
14.	Final examination Knowing yourself	Review the lecture 7-13	360minutes
14.	Final examination Knowing yourself	Read the materials.	150minutes
Total.	-	-	2820minutes

Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

	Mid-examination	Final examination	Report or Small examination	Total.
1.	20%	15%	5%	40%
2.	15%	20%	10%	45%
3.	5%	5%	5%	15%
Total.	40%	40%	20%	-

Evaluation method and criteria

Your final grade will be calcuated according to the following process:
Mid-term examination(40%), final examination (40%) and Report or Small examination(20％).
Passing grade is more than 60.
Attendance more than two-thirds is compulsory.

Textbooks and reference materials

Materials are distributed at each class.

Prerequisites

Nothing in particular.

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