INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY TEACHER SUPPLEMENT

This college course an Introduction to Philosophy is not a history of the great philosophers and their systems. It is not a survey of the traditional divisions of philosophy--metaphysics epistemology phenomenology ethics politics and aesthetics. It is however a process of doing philosophy that takes up some of the basic questions and problems that we will all encounter in life--sooner or later. It is also an application of the Socratic method of teaching and learning that develop habits of independent critical and reflective thinking. It is a series of Socratic seminars on the Great Books by the greatest faculty of the Western world and a process that illustrates how to pass from the world of work need and empirical science into the world of all things (beings) that Being provides.