开始时间: 12/21/2023 持续时间: 4 weeks of study, 3 levels of commitment: Learn (1.5h/week), Engage (3h/week), Go Further (3+h/week)
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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/know-thyself-the-examined-life
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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.
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
Description:
相传，古希腊德尔斐圣地的庙宇墙壁上刻着两条主要的禁令：不要过分，要知道自己。本课程将检验后一条禁令，以发现自我知识是什么，为什么它可能有价值，以及它可能面临的限制（如果有的话）。一个缺乏自知之明的人缺少什么，使她在某些领域的智慧、道德或能力不如其他有这种能力的人，如果她可以做些什么来填补这个空白呢？历史资料以及最近在哲学、实验社会心理学和神经科学方面的研究将为我们的调查提供信息，在此过程中，我们将成为自己梦想的学生，并培养一些冥想练习。学习成果：学习者将熟悉西方、中国古典和佛教方法中的突出主题，以了解我们自己。在这样做的过程中，他们将了解自我知识与智慧的关系、智力谦逊的价值，以及不依赖内省的自我学习方法。学习者还将熟悉当代实验社会心理学、哲学和神经科学对情绪、无意识、情感在决策制定中的作用和自我欺骗的研究。他们还将了解对源自佛教传统的连贯、统一的自我假设所面临的挑战。 --- 本课程由爱丁堡大学与 Humility & Conviction and Public Life Project 合作创建，该项目是康涅狄格大学的一个参与性研究项目，由约翰邓普顿基金会慷慨资助。
