Dirk Oosthoek
Content of Dutch textbooks in philosophy current in secondary schools
Compiled by Dirk Oosthoek
(1) Textbook: Cogito (2007, Veen publishers)
Author: E.A. le Coultre
Chapter 1 Philosophical Antropology
1 Man is a beast that is able to think
2 Body and Mind
3 Liberty
‘You’re not born as a female, but you’re made a female’. The personal politics of Simone de Beauvoir
‘When a robot falls in love’: interview with Daniel Dennett
Chapter 2 Philosophical Ethics
1 The good life
2 Happiness, duty and virtue
3 Values and rights
4 Individualism
‘In your fragility you can experience the good’: interview with Martha Nussbaum
‘The biological moral’: interview with Frans de Waal
Chapter 3 Social Philosophy
1 The ideal society
2 A just society
3 Power and market
‘Look around in the future: mini course in utopian enbroadening one’s outlook’: essay
by Liesbeth Bakker
‘Punishing is something human’: interview with Britta Böhler
Chapter 4 Theory of knowledge
1 What we know (and do not know)
2 Rationalism and empiricism
3 The boundaries of our knowledge
4 Knowledge in context
5 Belief and truth
‘Thought experiment: brain in a vat
‘Colours don’t exist.’ The bewildering conclusion of John Locke
Chapter 5 Philosophy of Science
1 What is scientific?
2 How science Works
3 Science is everywhere
‘It helps, but does it also take effect’: essay about homeopathy
‘The open minded view’: interview with Jan Hendrik van den Berg
Chapter 6 Aesthetics
1 What is art?
2 Art is imitation
3 Art is expression
4 Art is form
5 Art is symbolic
6 Kant: the aesthetic judgement
‘Soapboxes and beauty’: interview with Arthur Danto
(2) Textbook: The eye in the Storm (2007, Boom publishers)
Author: E. Geerlings
Introduction
1 How to start: some tools and strategies
2 A brief history
Book 1
Chapter 1 Reasoning and persuading (logic and argumentation)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Logic
1.3 Persuading: retorics
Chapter 2 Being (metaphysics)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Drifting away: Plato (ca. 427-347 BC)
2.3 Feet on the ground: Aristotle (ca. 383-322 BC)
2.4 A synthesis between aristotelian philosophy and christian doctrine: Thomas
Aquinas (1225-1274)
2.5 Two realities: Descartes (1596-1650) and Spinoza (1632-1677)
2.6 The undermining of substance and subject: Hume (1711-1776)
2.7 Rehabilitation of the subject: Kant (1724-1804)
2.8 The great reconciler: Hegel (1770-1831)
2.9 Reversed Platonism: Nietzsche (1844-1900)
2.10 Metaphysics as analysis of language: Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
2.11 Seinsvergessenheit: Heidegger (1889-1976)
Chapter 3 Knowledge and knowing (theory of knowledge & philosophy of science)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Rational knowledge: rationalism
3.3 Empirical knowledge: empiricism
3.4 The dispute been settled
3.5 Meaning
3.6 Truth
3.7 Certainty
3.8 Justified beliefs
3.9 Other sciences: Wilhem Dilthey (1833-1911)
Chapter 4 To Create and Judge (aesthetics)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Art as imitation: Plato (ca. 427-347 BC)
4.3 The temptation of beauty: Augustine (354-430)
4.4 Beauty and form: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
4.5 The end of the cult of beauty: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
4.6 After the end of art: Arthur Danto (1924-2013)
Book 2
Chapter 5 How to Act (philosophical ethics)
5.1 What do I have to do?
5.2 Ethical positions I
5.3 The dispute about the good
5.4 The disputers: ethical positions II
Chapter 6 Living together (social philosophy)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Society als a theatre
6.3 The arena of acting: the polis
6.4 Political-philosophical views
6.5 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Assessing (cultural philosophy)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Happiness as the highest good: Aristotle (384-322 BC)
7.3 Lord and master of nature: Descartes (1596-1650)
7.4 Christian critique of culture: Locke (1632-1704)
7.5 Limits to growth: Rousseau (1712-1778)
7.6 The necessity of history: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
7.7 Play and culture: Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
7.8 In search for new values: Nietzsche (1844-1900)
7.9 The rise of cultural antropology: Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
Chapter 8 Being human (philosophical antropology)
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Driven by Eros: Plato (ca. 427-347 BC)
8.3 Between potency and actualisation: Aristotle (ca. 384-322 BC)
8.4 A thinking thing: Descartes: (1596-1650)
8.5 Dualisme disputed
8.6 Dethroned: Darwin (1809-1882)
8.7 The unfinished beast: Nietzsche (1844-1900)
8.8 No Lord, not even in your own house: Freud (1856-1939)
8.9 Beyond dualism: Heidegger (1889-1976)
8.10 A human being is what he makes of himself: existentialism
8.11 As a visage of sand at the edge of the sea: Foucault (1926-1984)
8.12 Flawed men
(3) Textbook: Learning to Philosophize (2008, Thieme Meulenhoff publishers)
Authors: M. Slagter, S. Slagter, M. Pieterse
Chapter I Philosophical Skills
1 There is more to see
2 Philosophy starts with questioning
3 Definitions, reasoning and fallacies
4 Love for wisdom
Chapter II Philosophical Antropology
Introduction: What is man?
1 Man as a reasonable being
2 Man as a lingual being
3 Body and mind
4 Views on man
5 Be who you are
6 A personal point of view
7 Symposion Philosophical Antropology
8 Philosophical Eleven and Time Table
9 Central concepts and pairs of concepts
Chapter III Philosophical Ethics
Introduction: What is good?
1 The moral good
2 The origins of morality
3 The heart of public morality
4 Kinds of ethics
5 What is the correct moral?
6 A personal point of view
7 Symposion Philosophical Ethics
8 Philosophical Eleven & Time Table
Chapter IV Social Philosophy
Introduction: What is a just society?
1 The origins of a state
2 The state
3 Western society
4 A just society
5 Modern versus postmodern
6 A personal point of view
7 Symposion Social Philosophy
8 Time table
9 Central concepts and pairs of concepts
Chapter V Theory of knowledge
Introduction: What is knowledge
1 Types of knowledge
2 Reliability of knowledge
3 The basis of science
4 Knowledge and belief
5 Knowledge within a frame
6 A personal point of view
7 Symposion Theory of Knowledge
8 Philosophical Eleven and Time Table
9 Central concepts and pairs of concepts
Chapter VI Philosophy of Science
Introduction: What is scientific knowledge?
1 Types of science
2 Sources of scientific knowledge
3 The empirical cycle
4 Progress in science
5 The true, the good and the beauty
6 A personal point of view
7 Symposion Philosophy of Science
8 Philosophical Eleven & Time Table
9 Concepts and pairs of concepts