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Browse IB Philosophy notes, questionbank questions, videos, and flashcards, and revision tools for SL and HL.
IB Philosophy is a Group 3 subject in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). It develops the ability to question assumptions, analyse arguments and construct reasoned responses to philosophical problems. Students explore the core theme of being human, study optional themes and a prescribed philosophical text, and apply philosophical ideas to a non-philosophical stimulus such as a film, poem or artwork.
The course is available at Standard Level (SL), with 150 recommended teaching hours, and Higher Level (HL), with 240 recommended teaching hours. First assessment of this syllabus was in 2025. HL students study an additional optional theme and the extension on philosophy and contemporary issues.
10.1 Language, Truth and Logic – Alfred Jules Ayer
10.2 The Analects – Confucius
10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes
10.4 Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon
10.5 On the Genealogy of Morality – Friedrich Nietzsche
10.6 Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach – Martha C. Nussbaum
10.7 The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset
10.8 The Republic, Books IV–IX – Plato
10.9 The Ethics of Authenticity – Charles Taylor
10.10 Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
10.11 The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
10.12 On Liberty – John Stuart Mill