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World Philosophy Course Number(s): 4307G1021 Open to: 9, 10 Credit: 1 Content: This course will introduce, compare, and contrast a basic overview of American, European, and Eastern ways of thinking from both contemporary and historical contexts. It will include tenets in ethics as they are derived, perceived, and practiced in different situations and locations. Critical Content/Concept Web Unit Topic: Conceptual Lens: Finding Meaning Grade:  Grade: 9th – 12th Subject: World Philosophy Unit: Metaphysics Lens: Finding Meaning Enduring Understandings Guiding Questions The concepts of good, evil, conscience, soul, dualism, the mind, responsibility, and choice shape human nature. Personal identity is a reflection of perception, change, continuity, physicality, thought, memory, and experiences. Logic, faith, criticism, and experience define humanity’s understanding of God. The crafting of a good life considers happiness, pleasure, duty, desires, selfishness, fate, freedom, and choice. Finding purpose may rely on artifacts, function, planning, intrinsic value, and virtue. What is a person? What is human nature? What is personal identity? Is thought requisite to personhood? What is a meaningful life? What is the history of humanity’s belief in God? What is a good life? What is a purposeful life?  Grade: 9th – 12th Subject: World Philosophy Unit: Metaphysics Lens: Finding Meaning Students will know… Students will be able to… The ideas of Camus, Descartes, Hegel, Heraclitus, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Plato, Reid, Russell, Ryle, Sartre, Thomson, Tooley, and Turing related to human nature. How Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Bentham, Confucius, Daly, de Beauvoir, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Mohammed, Nietzsche, Paley, Pascal, Sartre, the Upanishads, and Voltaire defined a meaningful life. Use literature to enrich meaning. 2. Evaluate the merit of source materials. 3. Employ a variety of sources to extend understanding. 4. Associate