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【General Basic Subjects･2nd semester】
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Objectives |
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Students will go through with training to learn “philosophical thinking”: students will practice setting a question, thinking, and speaking philosophically. In the class, students will set several themes and think about them together.
The objective of this class is not to learn about schools, trends, and theories appearing in the “history of philosophy”, even though various ideas of the famous philosophers might be introduced and examined time to time if necessary. This is because there is no point in memorizing the history of philosophy before having a keen awareness of issues and a critical mind.The important thing in philosophy is to inquire into the problems in which you are interested to the utmost limit. Our main purpose is accordingly to find a “question” based on each student’s motivation, consider it tenaciously, and speak about it with their own words, rather than coming up with “one-sided hasty answer”.
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Outline |
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What if the world we consider as “the reality” is just a dream or an illusion? What if our lives are all fiction...?
Have you ever tormented by these kind of questions? We casually accept our lives as reality. Insofar as we lead our ordinary life as usual, we have few opportunities to doubt that reality. However, when one is asked, “what is the reality?,” how many people can clearly define “the reality”? The world you see might be an illusion your brain shows. Your life might be a scenario somebody else came up with. Are you really sure that your best friend is not a “robot” equipped with artificial intelligence? Does the “desk” in front of you really exist there? Can you prove that the scene you and I witnessed are really one and the same? What does “knowing something” mean in the first place? Everyone says, “I am me.” However, who is “me” at that time?
Philosophers are those who give serious consideration to these questions. Philosophy just starts when we doubt something regarded to be “obvious” in daily life. Let us try to give thorough consideration to the structure of our recognition of the “reality,” while grasping the concrete image of “how to think philosophically.”
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