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Philosophy
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Free Philosophy study notes for IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Exam skills
Core theme stimulus-response skills (Paper 1, Section A)
Optional theme essay writing (Paper 1, Section B)
Prescribed text: explain and discuss (Paper 2)
Philosophical vocabulary and command terms
Core theme: Being human
Identity
The self and the other
Consciousness
Personhood
Human nature
Freedom
Optional themes
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Ethics
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of science
Political philosophy
Social philosophy
Prescribed text (I)
Alfred Jules Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Volume 1 Part 1, Volume 2 Part 1 and Part 4
Confucius, The Analects
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Prescribed text (II)
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Martha C. Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
Plato, The Republic, Books IV–IX
Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
HL extension: Philosophy and contemporary issues
Philosophy and technology
Philosophy and the environment
Explaining the unseen text (Paper 3, Part A)
Critical discussion of philosophy's role (Paper 3, Part B)
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