Philosophy Introduction Seminar

"One cannot learn philosophy, but only how to philosophize" is a quote by Immanuel Kant, an eighteenth-century German philosopher. However, what does it mean to "learn to philosophize”?
This course attempts to provide students the experience of "philosophizing" through group work, using familiar topics such as "living" and "learning" as subjects.

Philosophy, Humanities, Meaning of Living/Learning/Thinking, Group Work

1: Introduction
2: Suffering of Life
3: Meaning of Studying Ethics
4: Living Subjectively
5: Doubts and Worries
6: On the "Meaning" of Life
7: Modern Ethics
8: Reasons for Living/Reasons for Not Dying
9: On "Spontaneous Thought"
10: Telling the Truth
11: Humans at the End
12: On "Thinking for Yourself" Again
13: What do Ethics Say About "Ways of Life"?
14: Socrates
15: Summary and Perspectives/Class Questionnaire

Syllabus (Japanese site only)