Anyone have any comments on a general philosophy course?
2007-02-14 13:05:33 · 5 answers · asked by suckapunchyoface 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
What do you think should be a personal requirement in order to take something like philosophy (i.e. an open mind, a sense of justness, etc.)
2007-02-14 13:19:10 · update #1
The great thing about philosophy courses is that there is typically no wrong answer. Right now I am in PHIL 214 (Biomedical Ethics) and we literally every day discuss a case of a patient, and analyze whether or not the doctor made the best moral decision and the decision that was ultimately best for the patient. It is purely discussion based on personal viewpoints. You leave out religion and everything else and pretty much just discuss common sense and decency. It sounds really boring, but you get to debate what you think would be the best and right now I actually think it is my favorite class. Homework consists of telling my opinion of a certain case, and as long as I mention the terms used in class, I get an A. I had to write a 5 page paper the other day, whcih was no big deal, but it was really no big deal because since it was based solely on my opinion, it literally took be about 15 minutes to write, if that.
So to answer your question, not hard. If you have a brain, and a viewpoint, then you are good to go.
2007-02-14 13:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've taken lots of philosophy courses; the hardest was logic--I could not grasp the concept of some of the problems we had to do.
But I loved the classes that explored the ideas behind the men: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Hegel being some of my favorites...if you get into a small enough class, you can actually discuss and question your instructor if you don't understand things. I was fortunate to be in a class of 12, so there was a lot of 1:1 attention and lots of time to discuss stuff. Loved it.
2007-02-14 13:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by colbertcm61 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends who the instructor is. I had to take 9 hours of philosophy in college. The intro course wasn't too horrible, but the other two . . .I used to go home at night with a splitting headache from thinking so hard.
2007-02-14 13:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by SuzeY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually when philosophy is not your main course, you won't be getting much out of it, only some surface scratching. btw, you didn't really take courses that promise lots of abstract thought. sounds like you'll be reading Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard for existentialism course, and about the greek eros and then christianity and probably Fromm in the love & sex course. those are the authors to expect. yes, you will be expected to read a lot but I doubt there will be that much writing. it probably differs from university to university, as I write less than 10 papers in one whole semester - professors simply expect you to work a lot on your own. you won't have Popper or Bacon or Hegel, probably not Humes too, as someone before mentioned.
2016-05-24 00:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the instructor, and the course that you will be studying. But other than that it is OK.
2007-02-14 13:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by George 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋