PHIL 1025 - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: Who am I? “How should I live?” “What is real?” “What can I know?” These are the perennial questions that philosophy has asked and answered for thousands of years and will be the basis of this course. Students will be introduced to these concerns and questions of Eastern philosophy (East India - Hinduism and Buddhism, China - Confucianism and Daoism, and perhaps Japan) through a variety of readings both historical and contemporary. The areas of philosophy that this course may cover are general introduction to philosophy, philosophical argumentation, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the historical development of the discipline of Eastern philosophy.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. General Introduction to Philosophy
2. Philosophical Argumentation
3. Indian Philosophy
   1. Metaphysics
   2. Epistemology
   3. Ethics and/or Social and Political Philosophy
4. Chinese Philosophy
   1. Metaphysics
   2. Epistemology
   3. Ethics and/or Social and Political Philosophy

1. Philosophically analyze primary and secondary Eastern philosophical authors.
2. Articulate a philosophical argument.
3. Express coherent philosophical positions.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.

06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.

08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.

08. 04. Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.

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