PHIL 1025 - Introduction to Eastern Philosophy

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
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. This course will engage these questions by focusing on the insights offered by Eastern philosophy (East India - Hinduism and Buddhism, China - Confucianism and Daoism, and perhaps Japanese, Korean, and Islamic/Arabic perspectives) 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
MnTC Goal 6 MnTC Goal 8

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. analyze primary and secondary materials drawn from Eastern philosophy.
2. summarize differences between Eastern and Western thinking.
3. summarize key ideas and arguments of Eastern philosophical frameworks.
4. evaluate key ideas and arguments of Eastern philosophical frameworks.
5. compare and contrast one’s individual and broader cultural beliefs and values to those of Eastern thinkers.
6. analyze beliefs, actions, and values that originate in non-Western worldviews in a way that is critical, constructive, and open-minded. 

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.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 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.

Practicum hours per week: 0

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