Final Exam Information and Outline
Friday, May 12 (Day 2)
*There is a European History AP Exam that day, so if you are taking the exam that day then please let me know so we can find a time for your final.
Philosophy
- What philosophy is and why it is important to study
Objectivism and Subjectivism
- Definition of both positions
- Implications of how following one of the theories could affect a person's views on love and beauty
Love
- Plato, Montaigne, CS Lewis' theories on love
Epistemology - the study of knowledge and how we come to know information.
- Empiricism, Pragmatism, Rationalism
Deductive reasoning vs Inductive reasoning
Ethical Philosophies
- Humanism, Skepticism, Hedonism, Stoicism, Immanuel Kant and the Categorical Imperative
- Socrates and Aristotle's positions on ethics
Christian Ethical Philosophies
- Teleology (Consequentialism), Deontology, Virtue Ethics
- The Trolley Problem
Existence of Evil
- Christian teaching on evil from the Article the Problem of Evil
- Views of evil and hell from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy
- St. Augustine's views on evil and how it differs from the traditional 2 reasons of evil: 1) Ignorance and 2) Compulsion
St. Augustine's 3 causes of evil - Superbia, Curiositas and Concupiscence
Eastern Philosophy
- Understand the general differences in focus between Eastern and Western philosophies.
Buddhism
- Understand the four noble truths and the goal of the Eightfold Path. (You do not need to memorize the Eightfold Path.
- Understand Buddhist teachings on suffering
- Vocab: Nirvana, Buddha-nature, interconnectedness, impermanence, Karma
Confucianism
- Know the main teachings
- Vocab: filial piety and meritocracy.
Daoism
Know the main teachings
- Understand the Doctrine of inaction
Social Philosophy:
- Contract theory: Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's views
- David Hume's objection to contract theory
- John Rawls' position on government, Karl Marx on socialism
- Justice: Distributive, Formal, Egalitarianism, Justice on merit