Final Exam Information and Outline

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