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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Social Design Studies
Course Code VM350
Theme・Subtitle (場の人間学)
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Sat.1・7201
Credit 2
Course Number SDS5310
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes 21世紀社会デザイン研究科では、教室での対面授業を基本としながら、同時に遠隔地在住の学生の学びを保証するため、オンラインでも受講できる形で授業を行う。なお、履修者全員の了承が取れた場合には、「対面のみ」もしくは「オンラインのみ」で授業を行うこともある。
Text Code VM350

【Course Objectives】

Based on "An Inquiry into the Good", which is said to be "the first Japanese philosophy book", students will learn the basics of ethics and ethical theories in the East and West. The specific learning goals are 1) To become able to objectively explain and criticize Nishida's basic ideas, and 2) To become able to express one's own ideas and claims while using or criticizing Nishida's ideas.

【Course Contents】

Kitaro Nishida's "An Inquiry into the Good" is an influential philosophical book that has been read by many people in Japan and overseas, even though it is over one hundred years since its publication in 1911. Especially, this book had been widely read by the general public in the Taisho and early Showa periods which continued to be influential although the traditional sense of ethics up to the Edo period had been broken, and which was also a time when new ethics from Europe and the United States were adopted and infiltrated after the Meiji period. For people living in modern society where relativism has become normal, students will think again about what "living well" means, think about whether Nishida's philosophy can be the basis of effective ethics, and develop "philosophical" thinking skills.
 Students must read the designated texts in advance, listen to the (simple as possible) commentary by the lecturer in the classes, ask questions and dialogue, and write brief comments after the classes. By feeding back the comments in the next class and sharing them with all the participants, we hope to make the class a multi-directional and circulatory "place of dialogue" and "community of intellectual inquiry".

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