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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 10.12.7 Connections to the Core Theme and Optional Themes Key Definitions

Definition

Existential angst

Existential angst (also called anguish or anxiety) is a profound feeling of dread that arises from awareness of one's own radical freedom, the absence of a predetermined essence, and the inescapable responsibility for creating oneself through one's choices.

Definition

Falsificationism

Falsificationism is the view, developed by Karl Popper, that a theory is scientific if and only if it makes predictions that could, in principle, be shown to be false through observation or experiment.

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.

Definition

The marketplace of ideas

The marketplace of ideas is a metaphor derived from Mill's arguments in Chapter II of On Liberty for the process by which truth emerges through open competition among opinions, since suppressing any opinion deprives humanity of the chance to exchange error for truth.

IB Philosophy 10.12.7 Connections to the Core Theme and Optional Themes Key Definitions

Definition

Existential angst

Existential angst (also called anguish or anxiety) is a profound feeling of dread that arises from awareness of one's own radical freedom, the absence of a predetermined essence, and the inescapable responsibility for creating oneself through one's choices.

Definition

Falsificationism

Falsificationism is the view, developed by Karl Popper, that a theory is scientific if and only if it makes predictions that could, in principle, be shown to be false through observation or experiment.

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.

Definition

The marketplace of ideas

The marketplace of ideas is a metaphor derived from Mill's arguments in Chapter II of On Liberty for the process by which truth emerges through open competition among opinions, since suppressing any opinion deprives humanity of the chance to exchange error for truth.