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SUBJECT MATTER GUIDE

Intro to Philosophy
First Sem
S.Y 2021 – 2022

1ST Quarter: Doing Philosophy

COVERAGE PRIOR TO MASTERY EXAMINATIONS
Week 1  Classroom Orientation
Lesson 1: Doing Philosophy
 Discussion: What is Philosophy and what philosophy is not
Week 2
 Holistic perspective from a partial point of view
 Philosophy as a concept
Lesson 2: Philosophical Inquiry
 Discussion: Three levels of inquiries.
Week 3  The discipline of Questioning, The discipline of Liberation and The
discipline of Personhood.
 Significance of question to one's life
Lesson 3: Methods of Philosophizing
 Discussion: Why do we ask questions?
Week 4
 Two divisions of opinion
 Two levels of knowledge
Lesson 4: Holistic Perspective
 Discussion: Philosophizing and insight
Week 5
 Relevance of Insight in One’s Life
 Philosophical reflection on a concrete situation from a holistic perspective.
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# 48 KING FERDINAND ST., KINGSPOINT SUBD., NOVALICHES, QUEZON CITY
TEL. NO. 937 8720 TELEFAX 937 8975

1ST Quarter: The meaning and method of doing philosophy

COVERAGE PRIOR TO QUARTERLY EXAMINATIONS
Lesson 5: Opinion and Truth
 Discussion: Value of truth in philosophizing by bracketing or setting aside
opinions and biases.
Week 7
 Value of truth in philosophizing by bracketing or setting aside opinions
and biases.
 Fallacies used in argumentation
Lesson 6: Evaluate opinions
 Discussion: Evaluate an argument
Week 8
 Importance of learning the criteria in evaluating arguments.
 Guidelines on examining an Argument
Lesson 7: Embodied Spirit1
Week 9  Discussion: causes a human persons’ limitations
 The Logic of Thought

2nd Quarter: Human Living

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TEL. NO. 937 8720 TELEFAX 937 8975

COVERAGE PRIOR TO MASTERY EXAMINATIONS

Lesson 8: Transcendence
Week 11  Discussion: What makes a human person?
 “You can’t always get what you want.”
Lesson 9: The human person as an embodied spirit
 Discussion: The human person as an embodied spirit
Week 12
 How are we limited by our body?
 Define finitude
Lesson 10: The human person in their environment
 Discussion: Ancient Philosophy: On World “What is the world made
Week 13 of?”-Cosmo centrism
 Aesthetics (context of Nature)
 Disorders in the environment

2nd Quarter: Human Living

COVERAGE PRIOR TO QUARTERLY EXAMINATIONS
Lesson 11: Freedom of a human person
 Discussion: The Human Acts and Acts of Man
Week 15
 Types of Conflict
 Show acts of prudence.
Lesson 12: The Human Person in Society
Week 16  Discussion: Man as a Social being
 Concept of the Social Contract based from the philosophical proponents
Lesson 13: Forms of Societies / Types of Individuals in the Society
Week 17  Discussion: Forms of Societies
 Comparing the Forms of Societies
Prepared By:

Rochelle D. Tan
Subject Teacher