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Philosophy

Dr. F. J. Schaack

Philosophy

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Focus: An introduction survey to Western Philosophical thought

Broad-based Concept: Philosophers have real and immediate application to

contemporary the world of the student Generalizations: Understanding the philosophical concepts of Western civilization can afford relevance and application to today’s world.

Unit One “The Neophyte Philosopher”	Unit Two “Epistemology in the Dark Ages and Crawling Out”	Unit Three “Modern Philosophy and the 20^th Century”
Concepts: The Student as Philosopher The PreSocratics and Greek Thought Plato vs. Aristotle	Concepts: Platonism in the Dark Ages Augustine vs. Aquinas	Concepts: How and why did Philosophy reflect modernity
Enduring Understandings: The students will engage the concept of philosophy as love-of-wisdom, and discover linkages between themselves and ancient philosophical thought.	Enduring Understandings: The students follow and apply two broad conceptual schools through the millennium of the Dark Ages, and how different philosophers were coopted by necessity and/or convenience.	Enduring Understandings: The students will distinguish the advantages of British Empiricism vs. Continental Rationalism, and find heuristic linkages with concepts of the 20^th century.

Essential TEKS Questions: 1. Can the student distinguish between philosophy and Philosophy? 2. How did Greek thought reflect aspects of anthropocentric and then moralistic foci? 3. What are the similarities and differences of Plato and Aristotle? 4. In what real ways can a contemporary student apply ancient philosophical tenets to the modern world?

Essential TEKS Questions: 1. During the Age of Belief, how did Philosophers reflect the time? 2. How and why did Platonism dominate the Dark Ages? 3. How did Aristotelianism finally resurface? 4. How can tenets of these ages have relevance to today?

Essential TEKS Questions: 1. How did Descartes birth Modern Philosophy? 2. How does the dichotomy of Empiricism and Rationalism continue to reflect and/or divide the modern world? 3. Who are the 20^th century philosophers that have most impacted Structuralism, Modernism, and Postmodernism? 4. How can the student apply today’s philosophy to today’s worldview?