Course Profile - Curriculum Services Canada

Resources
Print
Collens, Steven. Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism. London: Cambridge
University Press, 1980.
Kessler, Gary. Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Reader. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.
Presbey, Gail, et al. The Philosophical Quest: A Cultural Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Video
Krishnamurti, J. Mind as a Myth. Thinking Allowed Production. 30 min.
Websites
www.oise.utoronto.ca/~hsphil/
Activity 8: A Philosophical Self-Portrait (Unit Culminating Activity)
Time: 300 minutes
Description
This activity calls upon students to review and summarize the insights that they have developed in Unit 1.
Each student is required to construct a philosophical self-portrait utilizing a variety of media. Students
may choose to create a painting, a videotape, a poem, a sculpture, or other suitable medium. The selfportrait
should reflect the student’s sense of self and is used at the end of the course to illustrate areas of
growth and change. Students present and explain their self-portrait to the class.
Strand(s) & Learning Expectations
Strand(s): Philosophical Questions, Philosophy and Everyday Life, Research and Inquiry Skills
Overall Expectations
PQV.02 - summarize their own or others’ answers to these questions, and give reasons in support of the
answers;
ELV.01 - relate the big questions of philosophy to their own experience, reports in the news media, and
their society;
ELV.02 - demonstrate the application of philosophical theories and skills to jobs, occupations, and
everyday life;
ISV.01 - apply research and inquiry skills related to philosophy appropriately and effectively;
ISV.04 - effectively use a variety of print and electronic sources and telecommunications tools in
research related to the big questions of philosophy.
Specific Expectations
PQ1.03 - summarize some arguments for and against answers to three (or more) of the big questions of
philosophy;
EL1.01 - describe what difference the answers people accept to three (or more) of the big questions of
philosophy should make to their values, behaviour, and life plans;
EL1.02 - describe the strengths and weaknesses of alternative responses to questions of applied
philosophy;
IS1.03 - identify the main conclusions of some philosophical positions regarding one or more of the big
questions, and the arguments used to support them;
IS3.02 - clearly explain their views and display their use of philosophical reasoning skills in short written
papers, using accepted forms of documentation as required;
IS2.02 - compile information related to the big questions of philosophy, using the Internet.
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• Philosophy: The Big Questions - Open