Philosophy & Critical Thinking 101: Win Arguments Like A Pro

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The importance of philosophy, critical thinking & argumentation; How to express your thoughts, ideas, and beliefs.

Created byKhurshid Sherani

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

Follow Socrates' method in your discussion to improve arguments.
Level up your views and thoughts towards love, beauty, and the structure of society.
Realize that a happy and quality life can be achieved only if you are familiar with your higher self.
Motivate yourself to achieve the desired life.
Filter reality from illusion.

Course content

3 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 8m total length

Understand Religious and Political Philosophy to WIN Arguments2:42
The first lecture of this course is an introduction to the whole course. This lecture asks some simple yet thought-provoking questions which are unanswered for ages. These questions are subjective, and every individual is free to build their ideology and philosophy through answering them. But, the twist is, you will be able to respond to these questions after completing this course.
An Overview of the Main Topics in the Course2:33
This lesson is designed to help you to create your pace for learning. It is an introduction to “the content of this course”. The course is divided into three parts. The first part of this course consists of two lectures: the introduction. The second part is an introduction to some famous philosophers whose ideology strongly impacts philosophers and their philosophy to date. The last part of this course is designed to enhance your rationality and thinking ability through problem-solving methods.

A Huge Subject Broken Down into Manageable Chunks6:16
The lesson sums up all topics covered in this course. These topics include self-knowledge, parts of philosophy, and the definition of reasoning. All these topics are explained through a simple example and some thought-provoking and open-ended questions. This lecture will help you build a basic understanding of philosophy.
One Man to Save a Group of Four?7:14
This lesson is designed to sharpen your problem-solving ability, besides it emphasizing the importance of ethical values. The lecture consists of three complicated and challenging examples followed by open-ended questions which can’t be answered without analyzing facts. Moreover, this lecture is designed to help you to realize the importance of studying philosophy.
Learn Socratic Method for Winning Arguments6:28
This lecture is about an introduction to Socrates and his beliefs. We discussed the most famous Socratic Method of argument, his beliefs, and fears about democracy, and the voting system he wanted to prevail for a better society. You will enjoy learning different ideas of the most genius person who was forced to drink poison.
What can we learn from Plato about the intellectual character?7:35
This lesson is about the ideas and theories of Plato. This emphasizes Plato’s concept of “Eudaemonia” followed by his four main ideas about improving life. Next, you will be introduced to “Plato’s Allegory of Cave” and “Theory of Forms”. This lecture will help you to think more and search for the answers to questions about life.
Aristotle; The ideology of "Snowing Self".5:46
This lecture is about the theories and concepts of Aristotle. The lecture’s first part is about Lyceum; the school built by Aristotle. Then, the lecture moves forward to his different ideas, concepts, and theories such as
Aristotelian Method of Argument
Aristotle’s concept of psychology and the soul
Systematic Theory of Logic
His definition of “syllogism”
The “golden mean” created by Aristotle
His concept of virtues, and metaphysics
His concept of "cause"
This lecture will help you to build your ideas through observation and analyzing the events that happen in your surroundings to win arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Far-right, misogynist, humorless? Why is he misunderstood?6:25
This lecture is about the teachings and ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche i.e. his concept of “Ubermensch”, and beliefs about religion. This lecture includes a detailed discussion about his “reasons” for why can't certain people achieve the desired life? His concept of “Nihilism”, and his ideas about society, ethics, and morality, and ecce-homo. You will argue about his concepts of religion, God, and self-realization after you complete this lecture. In short, you will come to know about some ideas of modern philosophy in this lecture.
Rene Descartes: Dualism, Skepticism and Religion7:08
This lesson is about another modern philosopher named Rene Descartes. We have discussed his numerous ideas and concepts i.e. skepticism, his answer to the horrifying question he asked himself, “How can you know if what you believe is true?”, basket analogy, wax argument, reason, and deduction method, and rationalism. The lecture includes a discussion and explanation of his famous saying, “I think, therefore I am”. Moreover, his definitions of substance, method of doubt, the idea of perception and its dualist version, and reductionism and holism are also discussed.

Morality in the Philosophical World?7:14
In this lesson, we have added two famous problems to provoke your thinking and problem-solving abilities. Along with this, we have discussed the ethical choices for the decision-making process during solving a problem. This lecture also includes the introduction of “2 schools of moral thoughts” to help you choose your set of morality during arguments. We add a “thought experiment” followed by open-ended questions so you can decide what should be done in a particular situation.
Fundamentals of Political Philosophy: The Art of Winning Arguments6:12
This lecture is the most important of all. This lecture is an effort to clarify the different concepts about arguments such as
What is an argument?
What could be the main parts of the argument?
What is the purpose of an argument?
How can you conduct a successful and fruitful argument?
How can you reach a true “conclusion” in an argument?
What are the “logical argumentative steps”?
And what could be the best method of argument?
So, if you want to win an argument with logic and rationality, we advise you, not to miss this lecture.
How to Win at Arguments: Concluding with Philosophic Tips2:48
The last and the final lecture of this course will help you to know how is it important to build your own opinion through a systemic argument that includes
Importance of scanning and skimming
Importance of morality
Importance of logic and rationality
What is the difference between a philosopher and an ordinary thinker?
We hope you will enjoy and learn something new from this course. We wish good luck to our prospective philosophers.
Quiz 1
Assignment 1

Requirements

There is no strict criteria to enroll in this course. The basic requirement of this course is to be open-minded to new ideas and be curious. Furthermore, you may need to focus on your critical thinking skills, which will be helpful to understand Philosophy.

Description

This course is designed to enhance the analytical and cognitive abilities of learners enrolled. It will help to level up your argumentative skill through knowing the reasoning, deductive method, filtering beliefs, seeking truths, and questioning ethics and moral values. Another prominent feature of its design is to invoke your ability to think like a philosopher. After completion of this course, the quality of your arguments will increase. During this course, you will be introduced to those philosophers who have had a great impact on philosophy and philosophers to date, like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rene Descartes. After completing the course, you will be able to discuss their ideas confidently.

This course is divided into three sections.

The first section introduces the course. This part consists of two lectures.
The second section is the introduction to the most celebrated philosophers and their perennial problems and consists of five lectures.
The third and the last section is about political philosophy which addresses problem-solving ability. This section consists of three lectures.

There are some multiple-choice questions at the end of all three parts of course. Attempting these quizzes will help you to understand how much you have understood philosophy and critical thinking. At the end of the course, you will be assigned a short assignment to analyze the improvement in your argumentative abilities through rationalism, logic, problem-solving methods, and systematic arguments after completing the course.

If we try to define philosophy in its literal meanings then we come to know that the term “philosophy” means “love of wisdom”. In a broader term, philosophy is the activity of trying to seek and understand the fundamental truths about one's own self, the universe, and their relationship with the universe and other humans. Those who study philosophy are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for their answers to life’s most complicated yet simple questions.

Philosophy is one of the most basic areas of human thinking. It seeks to answer several universal questions, like:

How do we define the nature of individual things? It comes up all the time when people can't agree on a definition of something.
What's the difference between rational and non-rational thoughts?
When is an agent morally blameworthy? What kind of beings have moral responsibility?
How do we know something to be true?
What is art, what is religion, science, and what is language?
What is justice?
Why are we here?

In short, philosophy helps us to untie logical knots and identify spurious assumptions. It corrects verbal mistakes and the seduction of languages. Philosophy forces us to develop and use methods to analyze mental concepts and determine what is real and what exists.

Who this course is for:

This course is for people in search of the truth, and doing efforts to seek answers to fundamental questions about life, self, universe, and religion.
This course offers ancient and unique methods of arguments and discussion to those who want to improve their cognition and rationality.

Philosophy & Critical Thinking 101: Win Arguments Like A Pro

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 5min

Basics of Philosophy/Reasoning/Arguments7 lectures • 47min

Fundamentals of Political Philosophy3 lectures • 16min

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