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Grade 12, University Preparation
G1. UnderstandingSocialandPoliticalPhilosophy:demonstrateanunderstandingofthemain questions in social and political philosophy, and of the positions of major philosophers and schools of philosophy with respect to some of these questions;
G2. ExploringSocialandPoliticalPhilosophy:demonstrateanunderstandingoftheoriesinsocial and political philosophy, and evaluate responses to some of the main questions in social and political philosophy by major philosophers and schools of philosophy;
G3. MakingConnectionstoSocialandPoliticalPhilosophy:demonstrateanunderstandingof connections between social and political philosophy and other areas of philosophy, other subject areas, and various aspects of society, including everyday life;
G4. PhilosophicalReasoninginSocialandPoliticalPhilosophy:usephilosophicalreasoning skills to develop, communicate, and defend their own responses to questions in social and political philosophy.
G1. Understanding Social and Political Philosophy
G2. Exploring Social and Political Philosophy
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 9–12 | Social Sciences and Humanities
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
G1.1 demonstrate an understanding (e.g., in class discussions, debates, presentations, written work) of some of the main questions in social and political philosophy (e.g., What are the just limits of state authority? Do all people have the right to equal treatment? What limits, if any, should be put on the freedom of an individual citizen? What are an individual’s rights and responsibilities? Is it possi­ ble in a democracy for the government to adhere to
the will of the majority and still respect the views of the minority?)
G1.2 summarize the positions of various major philosophers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Gandhi, Charles Taylor, Arendt, Okin, Rawls, Nozick, Sen, Habermas, Foucault) and schools of philosophy (e.g., anar­ chism, liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, Marxism, utopianism, communitarianism) on some of the main questions in social and political philosophy
By the end of this course, students will:
G2.1 explain different theories in social and polit­ ical philosophy with reference to some classic and contemporary texts (e.g., excerpts from Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Rawls’s Theory of Justice, Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies, de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Okin’s Justice, Gender, and the Family, Taylor’s Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Arendt’s The Human Condition)
G2.2 compare how different philosophers and/ or schools of philosophy approach the same questions/issues in social and political philoso­ phy (e.g., questions related to the idea of a social contract, the role of women in society, the ideal form of government, the justifiability of various forms of resistance to oppression)
Teacher prompts: “In what ways do Popper and Marx differ in their views of liberal democratic governments?” “In what ways do Habermas
G. SUPPLEMENTARYTOPICS:SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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