DISCUSSION PHILOSOPHY

This discussion aligns with Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Would you want to download your consciousness into a computer in order to keep it for eternity? What/who do you think you would be downloading, knowing what you’ve learned in this module? SHOULD you want to? Why or why not? (1)

Submission

Our discussions are a valuable opportunity to have thoughtful conversations regarding a specific topic. You are required to provide a comprehensive initial post with 2–3 well-developed paragraphs that include a topic sentence and at least 3–5 supporting sentences with additional details, explanations, and examples. In addition, you are required to respond substantively to the initial posts of at least two other classmates on at least two different days. All posts should be reflective and well written, meaning free of errors in grammar, sentence structure, and other mechanics.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate proficiency in critical thinking
2. Demonstrate understanding of Global Social Responsibility
3. Recognize the relationships between cultural expressions and their contexts
4. Understand cultural expressions
5. Interpret and evaluate cultural artifacts and/or their contexts for significance
6. Recognize concepts in metaphysics, axiology, and epistemology and the context of their development
7. Comprehend the scope of philosophic inquiry and how beliefs are formed and justified especially within a particular cultural construct
8. Understand the principles of freedom, determinism and moral responsibility in human interaction

Module Objectives

Upon completion of this module the student will be able to:

• Define ontology and describe its related classifications in the history of ideas
• Contrast Materialism from Idealism; Define and compare Monism, Dualism, and Pluralism
• State the difference between a human person and a human being
• Define Atman
• Distinguish the ego theory of the self from the bundle theory
• Explain the mind/body problem(1)

Readings and Resources

• Plato, Republic Section 506c — 520a from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
• Metaphysics: Ship of Theseus from Wikipedia.

Supplemental Materials

(Note: These materials are considered supplemental and thus are not used for assessment purposes.)

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website
• Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy # 4 by CrashCourse
• "Man, as Project,” by Ortega y Gasset and translated by Samuel P. Moody
• Philosophy — Metaphysics: Ship of Theseus [HD] by Wireless Philosophy
• A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind — Session One: Identity Theory and Why It Won’t Work by Marianne Talbot
• Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments: Crash Course Philosophy #10 by CrashCourse
• Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19by CrashCourse
• Arguments Against Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #20by CrashCourse
• Personhood: Crash Course Philosophy # 21by CrashCourse
• Where Does Your Mind Reside?: Crash Course Philosophy #22 by CrashCourse
• Artificial Intelligence & Personhood: Crash Couse Philosophy #23 by CrashCourse

Lecture Content

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Learning Unit 5