Philosophy･Ethics

Course title

04187300

Philosophy･Ethics

Course description

In this course we learn the essence of philosophical and ethical thoughts, on which engineering ethics, bioethics and technological ethics are based, reading the text which famous philosophers wrote.

Purpose of class

By thinking about the essence of oneself, human beings, our society or our world, we learn to understand them more profoundly and judge for oneself what is good or bad, that is, what we should do or mustn't do it.

Goals and objectives

One can think from various points of view, relativizing one's one-sided view of things.
One can cultivate one's generous mind to understand different values which different people or cultures have.
One ca analyze the essence of the real problems philosophically and ethically and judge for oneself whether things are good or bad.

Language

Japanese

Class schedule

	Class schedule	HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.)	Amount of Time Required
1.	Socrates To understand the difference between opinion(belief) and truth, relativism and absolutism or senses and reason.	Read the handout.	190minutes
2.	Plato To understand his Platonism and the difference between nature and law.	Read the handout.	190minutes
3.	Aristotle To understand his thoughts, that is, 4 types of movement, 4 types of cause, material and essence, reality and possibility, 3 types of soul, teleological view of world, virtue ethics or what he thought happiness.	Read the handout.	190minutes
4.	Trends of European thoughts To understand the characteristics of Hellenism and Hebraism and those of Rationalism and Empiricism.	Read the handout.	190minutes
5.	Descartes（French, 1596～1650） and Hobbs （English, 1588～1679）・Descartes：Dualism of body and spirit, mechanical view of world ・Hobbs：natural condition, natural rights, natural law	Read the handout.	190minutes
6.	J. Locke and J-J. Rousseau J. Locke（English, 1632～1704）：primary quality and secondary quality J-J. Rousseau（French, 1712～1778）：Theory of social contract	Read the handout.	190minutes
7.	Empiricism and Utilitarianism Barkley（English, 1685～1753）：idealism D. Hume（English, 1711～1776）：skepticism Bentham（English, 1748～1832）：Utilitarianism J. S. Mill（English, 1748～1832）：Utilitarianism	Read the handout.	190minutes
8.	E. Kant（German, 1724～1804） part1 To understand his epistemology and agnosticism.	Read the handout.	190minutes
9.	E. Kant（German, 1724～1804） part2 To understand his ethical theory or deontology.	Read the handout.	190minutes
10.	Henri Bergson（French, 1859～1941）part1 To understand his theory of time and theory of self.	Read the handout.	190minutes
11.	Henri Bergson（French, 1859～1941）part2 To understand his theory of moral and theory of religion.	Read the handout.	190minutes
12.	Modern high technologies and ethics To think about some problems concerning neuroscience and Brain Machine Interface(BMI), and the relation between mind and body.	Read the handout.	190minutes
13.	F. Nietzsche（German, 1844～1900） To understand his theory of moral.	Read the handout.	190minutes
14.	C. G. Jung（German, 1875～1961） To understand his theory of consciousness and unconsciousness.	Read the handout.	190minutes
Total.	-	-	2660minutes

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

	小テスト	Total.
1.	30%	30%
2.	40%	40%
3.	30%	30%
Total.	100%	-

Evaluation method and criteria

Your final grade will be calculated according to the following process:
Small examination(6～8points) at the end of every class. The total of points of all classes will be 100 points.
Passing grade is more than 60 points.
Attendance more than two-thirds is compulsory. The submission of your answer to the small examination is regarded as your attendance.

Textbooks and reference materials

Some handout are distributed every time.

Prerequisites

Nothing in particular.

Office hours and How to contact professors for questions