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Grade 12, University Preparation
C1. Understanding Metaphysics: demonstrate an understanding of the main questions in metaphysics, and of the positions of major philosophers and schools of philosophy with respect to some of these questions;
C2. Exploring Metaphysics: demonstrate an understanding of metaphysical theories, and evaluate responses to some of the main questions in metaphysics by major philosophers and schools
of philosophy;
C3. Making Connections to Metaphysics: demonstrate an understanding of connections between metaphysics and other areas of philosophy, other subject areas, and various aspects of society, including everyday life;
C4. Philosophical Reasoning in Metaphysics: use philosophical reasoning skills to develop, communicate, and defend their own responses to metaphysical questions.
C1. Understanding Metaphysics C2. Exploring Metaphysics
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 9–12 | Social Sciences and Humanities
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
C1.1 demonstrate an understanding (e.g., in class discussions, debates, presentations, written work) of some of the main questions in metaphysics (e.g., What are the ultimate constituents of reality? Does a supreme being exist, and, if so, what role does it have in human life? What is understood
by the concept of “being”? What is the relationship of mind to matter? What is the self? What is per­ sonal identity? Are human actions free? What is the meaning of life? Do machines have minds?
Do people have souls?)
C1.2 summarize the positions of various major philosophers (e.g., Plato, Ibn Sina [Avicenna],
Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Spinoza, Laozi, Locke, Kant, Sartre, Shankara, Ramanuja, Quine, Parfit) and schools of philoso­ phy (e.g., Platonism, monism, dualism, idealism, materialism, existentialism) on some of the main questions in metaphysics
By the end of this course, students will:
C2.1 explain different metaphysical theories with reference to some classic and contemporary texts (e.g., excerpts from Plato’s Phaedo, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, the Bhagavad Gita, St. Anselm’s Proslogion, Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, Heidegger’s What Is Metaphysics?, Spinoza’s Ethics, Kierkegaard’s Repetition, Quine’s Word and Object)
C2.2 compare how different philosophers and/ or schools of philosophy approach the same metaphysical questions/issues
Teacher prompts: “How do the animistic views held by many indigenous peoples differ from Western philosophers’ views about the nature of God and the physical world?” “What is the Akan conception of personhood in traditional African philosophy, as articulated by Kwasi Wiredu? How does this view differ from
C. CORETOPICS:METAPHYSICS OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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