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1.1 Identity

1.2 The self and the other

1.3 Consciousness

1.4 Personhood

1.5 Human nature

1.6 Freedom

2.1 The nature of art

2.2 The artist and the artistic process

2.3 Aesthetic experience and judgement

3.1 Nature of knowledge

3.2 Problems of knowledge

3.3 Application of knowledge

4.1 Normative ethics

4.2 Meta-ethics

4.3 Applied ethics

5.1 Nature and existence of God

5.2 Religious language

5.3 Religious experience and behaviour

6.1 Nature and methodologies of science

6.2 Science and the self

6.3 Science and society

7.1 The state

7.2 Justice

7.3 Liberty and rights

8.1 Social structures and institutions

8.2 Equality and discrimination

8.3 Gender

9.1 Philosophy and technology

9.2 Philosophy and the environment

9.3 The nature, function, and meaning of methodology of philosophy

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

IB Philosophy 10.11.7 Connections to the Core Theme and Optional Themes Key Definitions

Definition

Active transcendence

In de Beauvoir's existentialism, active transcendence is the purposeful engagement with the world through which human beings create meaning, pursue projects, and assert their freedom against the forces of immanence and oppression.

Definition

Moral responsibility

Moral responsibility is the status of being worthy of praise or blame for one's actions, typically requiring that the agent acted freely, with knowledge of what they were doing, and with the capacity to have done otherwise.

Definition

Psychological Continuity

Psychological continuity, associated with John Locke, is the view that personal identity consists in overlapping chains of memory, consciousness, and psychological connection linking earlier and later stages of a person's life, prioritising mental over physical continuity as the criterion of personal identity.

Definition

Situated freedom

For de Beauvoir, situated freedom is the recognition that human freedom is never abstract or unlimited but always exercised from within a particular social, historical, and bodily situation that shapes its possibilities.

IB Philosophy 10.11.7 Connections to the Core Theme and Optional Themes Key Definitions

Definition

Active transcendence

In de Beauvoir's existentialism, active transcendence is the purposeful engagement with the world through which human beings create meaning, pursue projects, and assert their freedom against the forces of immanence and oppression.

Definition

Moral responsibility

Moral responsibility is the status of being worthy of praise or blame for one's actions, typically requiring that the agent acted freely, with knowledge of what they were doing, and with the capacity to have done otherwise.

Definition

Psychological Continuity

Psychological continuity, associated with John Locke, is the view that personal identity consists in overlapping chains of memory, consciousness, and psychological connection linking earlier and later stages of a person's life, prioritising mental over physical continuity as the criterion of personal identity.

Definition

Situated freedom

For de Beauvoir, situated freedom is the recognition that human freedom is never abstract or unlimited but always exercised from within a particular social, historical, and bodily situation that shapes its possibilities.