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Grade 12 Philosophy: Questions and Theories (HZT4U)

The Ontario Grade 12 university-preparation course Philosophy: Questions and Theories has eight strands, from research skills to aesthetics. The museum maps four of them, through the thinkers and ideas of the Islamic world.

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Strand B: Philosophical Foundations

The periods and areas of philosophy and the skills of reasoning (expectations B1 and B2). The museum maps one lesson, on the periods and their philosophers.

  1. Philosophers of the medieval world, in Arabic How the periods of philosophy and their major philosophers look when the medieval period includes thinkers of the Islamic world (B1.2). Scholar × 2Object

Strand C: Core Topics: Metaphysics

The main questions of metaphysics and the philosophers' answers (expectations C1 to C4). The museum maps two lessons: free action, and the translation movement.

  1. Are human actions free? Two Sunni positions One question the curriculum lists, whether human actions are free, as two Sunni authors state it (C1.1). Reflection
  2. A force that shaped thought: the translation movement The Abbasid effort to render ancient philosophy into Arabic, as one force in the history of metaphysical thought (C3.3). PlaceStory

Strand E: Core Topics: Epistemology

The main questions about knowledge and its limits (expectations E1 to E4). The museum maps one lesson, on an old account of vision.

  1. Do we see the world as it is? Ibn al-Haytham on vision An old account of vision that separates sensing from interpreting, set beside one of the curriculum's questions about perception (E1.1). Invention

Strand G: Supplementary Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

The main questions about society, rights and government (expectations G1 to G4). The museum maps one lesson, on a thinker of human association.

  1. Living together: Ibn Khaldun's society A thinker of the Islamic world on human association, and how the idea entered the writing of history (G1.2, G3.4). Scholar

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