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Philosophy CIS-L&S-MKDA - Period 3
Business & Economics Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: mid Aug 2024 - early Jul 2025
Philosophy CIS-L&S-MKDA - Period 3
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Philosophy
Instruction in: English
Course Code: L_YABAALG201
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84
DESCRIPTION
Philosophy is a discipline that focuses more on questions than answers. Examples of philosophical questions are: What is reality? What can human beings know? How can different research disciplines translate their results for each other? How can you lead a good life? How can earthlings deal with their finitude?
In this course, we will investigate how philosophers from different cultures have approached such questions. We will also reflect on how the study of intercultural philosophical dialogue questions the idea that there is one universal reason, that roots in the European Enlightenment.
Finally, we will investigate how we can produce our own reflections, on life, on reality, and on our academic discipline. Dialogue with the texts of famous thinkers as well as practice in writing down our reflections are important parts of the course.
In this course, we will investigate how philosophers from different cultures have approached such questions. We will also reflect on how the study of intercultural philosophical dialogue questions the idea that there is one universal reason, that roots in the European Enlightenment.
Finally, we will investigate how we can produce our own reflections, on life, on reality, and on our academic discipline. Dialogue with the texts of famous thinkers as well as practice in writing down our reflections are important parts of the course.