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课程名称：认识你自己 - 自我知识的价值与局限：审视生活 课程概述：根据传奇，古希腊德尔菲神庙的墙上刻有两个主要箴言：不要过度和认识你自己。本课程将深入审视后者，以探索自我知识是什么、它为什么有价值、以及它可能面临的局限性。缺乏自我知识的人在某些领域上可能缺乏什么，使她在智慧、德行和能力上不如那些拥有这种能力的人？她是否可以采取任何措施来填补这一空白？我们将结合历史来源及哲学、实验社会心理学和神经科学的最新研究，在此过程中，我们将成为自己梦境的学生，并培养一些冥想实践。 学习成果：学习者将熟悉西方、古典中国及佛教对自我知识的主要主题。在此过程中，他们将领悟自我知识与智慧之间的关系、知识谦卑的价值，以及不依赖内省的自我了解方法。 学习者还将了解当代实验社会心理学、哲学和神经科学关于情感、潜意识、情感在决策中的作用及自我欺骗的研究。他们将认识到来自佛教传统的一个挑战，即对统一、连贯自我的假设的质疑。 课程创建：本课程是爱丁堡大学与康奈尔大学的谦卑与信念与公共生活项目合作的成果，该项目是一项基于康奈尔大学、得到了约翰·坦普尔顿基金会慷慨资助的参与性研究项目。 大纲： - 入门模块 - 苏格拉底与审视生活：讨论苏格拉底在审判中的态度及其“未经检验的生活不值得过”的观点。 - 笛卡尔的本质：探讨笛卡尔对怀疑一切的思考和心灵与身体的分离。 - 心身问题的重新解释：研究笛卡尔的二元论及其局限性，关注外向的自我知识获取方式。 - 人性：讨论人性概念及其在自我理解中的作用，包括人性是否可以改变的问题。 - 期末评估模块。 通过本课程，学习者将提升对自我知识的理解，从而在思考和自我反省中获得更深入的智慧和能力。
Name:Getting started
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Name:Socrates and the Examined Life
Description:At his trial, charged with corrupting the Athenian youth, Socrates isn't exactly apologetic. He tells the jury to their faces that they only charged him because they don't like that he forces them to confront uncomfortable truths. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the jury sentences him to death. Socrates accepts the sentence unfazed, famously stating that he'd rather die than stop making people think, as 'an unexamined life is not worth living'. In this module we will examine this dictum and ask: was Socrates right to throw shade on the unexamimed life?
Name:Descartes' Essence
Description:Are you dreaming right now? How do you know you're not? Rene Descartes set himself a pretty titanic task: to doubt absolutely everything he cannot be certain of - even that the world exists! - and then try to see if we can rebuild our knowledge of ourselves and the world only from what we can be really certain of. In the process, he formulated some provocative thoughts on the radical separation of the mind from the body.
Name:A re-casting of the Mind/Body problem
Description:Descartes' dualistic picture of the mind-body relation was highly influential for centuries. A vocal minority of thinkers challenged dualism, but only in the Twentieth Century did Gilbert Ryle manage to discern how Descartes' dualistic reasoning went wrong. In understanding Ryle's approach, we will also gain an appreciation of how know-how is a legitimate form of knowledge, and of how one way of gaining self-knowledge is by looking outward rather than looking inward.
Name:MIND AND SELF: Some Aspects of Human Nature
Description:Is there such a thing as a human nature? And if there is, how can we know what it is? In this module we will look at how the concept of human nature is used and potentially misused, and what can all this tell us about ourselves. And finally: can human nature be changed?
Name:Final assessment
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According to legend, inscribed on walls of the temple on the sacred site of Delphi in Ancient Greece were two premier injunctions: NOTHING IN EXCESS, and KNOW THYSELF. This course will be an examination of the latter injunction in an effort to discover what self-knowledge is, why it might be valuable, and what, if any, limitations it might face. What is missing from a person lacking in self-knowledge that makes her less wise, virtuous, or competent in certain areas than others who have this capacity, and what if anything might she do to fill that gap? Historical sources as well as recent research in philosophy, experimental social psychology, and neuroscience will inform our investigation, in the course of which we will become students of our own dreams, and cultivate some meditative practices. Learning Outcomes: Learners will gain familiarity with prominent themes from Western, classical Chinese, and Buddhist approaches to our knowledge of ourselves. In the course of doing so, they will gain an appreciation of the relation of self-knowledge to wisdom, of the value of intellectual humility, as well as of methods of learning about oneself that do not depend on introspection. Learners will also become familiar with contemporary research in experimental social psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience into the emotions, the unconscious, the role of affect in decision making, and self-deception. They will also gain an appreciation of a challenge to the assumption of a coherent, unified self that derives from the Buddhist tradition. --- This course was created by a partnership between The University of Edinburgh and Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project, an engaged research project based at the University of Connecticut and funded by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
