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5 預錄課程
5 週
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Weekly short quiz on key terms and concepts from each lecture (may be taken during the lecture or afterward), which will be corrected and returned. Weekly short answer questionnaire to aimed to gauge the student's own views and insights on the ethical questions raised in the lecture. I will respond to the short answer questions with feedback for each student.我們無法翻譯此文,請刷新頁面並再試一次。
課堂經歷
英語程度 - 未知
美國 7 - 10 年級
This class follows my multiday course of the same name, and is especially for students who cannot attend that live class due to time zone conflicts and other such consideration. This course examines the virtue ethics of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) and his philosophy of friendship. It builds on my one-time class on virtue ethics. But this class can be taken separately. No background knowledge or prerequisites required. We start from scratch ! The foundation of all ethics, according to Aristotle, is friendship. We are social beings, he wrote, and find our happiness in our relationships to family, friends, and in society. Ethics is what unites us all harmoniously, and enables everyone to reach their full potential. To do this, he wrote, we must know and be able to distinguish between our blameworthy and praiseworthy actions. This way can we become true friends. This course explores Aristotle’s views on friendship through his great work, Nicomachean Ethics. This class will reveal how Aristotle shows that our own personal development is achieved in social personhood through friendship (Greek: philia) between individuals, in families, and in communities. These relationships allow us to practice the personal virtues of bravery, temperance, mildness, truthfulness, generosity, and justice. By practicing these virtues, he wrote, we achieve true happiness (Greek: eudaimonia) and self-fulfillment. For a breakdown of learning objectives, consult the syllabus and weekly posts. Class Structure and Assessments This class is presented with asynchronous pre-recorded lectures each week. Students will have a weekly quiz of key terms and concepts (called in the post section as "study questions"), which they are expected to complete as they watch the video or afterward. I will grade each quiz, and respond with feedback for each student. There are five total quizzes (study questions).
學習目標
In overview, students will learn the foundations of Aristotle's virtue ethics, as well as Aristotle's influence throughout history to the present day.
Specifically, students will learn the philosophical concepts of:
Plato’s charioteer of the soul (Greek: psyche) and Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean that is based on the same. Aristotle's views on moral responsibility in blameworthy and praiseworthy actions with respect to bravery, temperance, mildness, truthfulness, generosity, and justice. Aristotle’s doctrine of money, economic exchange, and personal wealth and social responsibility. The qualities of a good ruler or leader. And Aristotle’s understandings of true friendship.
教學大綱
5 課程
超過 5 週課 1:
Aristotle
The historical legacy and significance of Aristotle
課 2:
Virtues of Bravery and Temperance
The foundations of ethical character
課 3:
Virtues of Mildness and Truthfulness
Emotional character
課 4:
Virtues of Generosity and Justice
Social character
其他詳情
外部資源
學習者無需使用標準 Outschool 工具以外的任何應用程式或網站。
來源
Aristotle. 1999. Nicomachean Ethics - Second Edition. Terence Irwin (translator). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Group.
Pangle, Lorraine Smith. 2003. Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
教師專業知識和證書
博士學位 由 McGill University
I have a PhD in the Philosophy of Religion from McGill University, and many years experience teaching philosophy and ethics. One of the courses I have taught is Environmental Virtue Ethics (ENVR 380), an open enrollment undergraduate course, at McGill University.
My PhD examined how the philosophy of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) engaged and transformed the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) as the grounding for his secular and philosophical Virtue Ethic he termed the 'reverence for life' ethic. This PhD research was followed-up with a book, The New Rationalism: Albert Schweitzer’s Philosophy of Reverence for Life, McGill-Queens University Press (2013), that went further to trace his thought back to ancient Greece.