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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-27-1995 |
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REL246 2013 Spring - 9999 |
LEC 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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American
Indian and Euroamerican Comparative Worldviews |
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Examination of American Indian worldviews and comparison
of these worldviews with Euroamerican philosophical
assumptions. Consideration of possibilities for mutual criticism and dialogue
between American Indian and Euroamerican
traditions. Prerequisites: None. |
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Course
Attribute(s): General
Education Designation: Humanities and Fine Arts - [HU] |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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REL246 2013
Spring - 9999 |
American Indian and Euroamerican
Comparative Worldviews |
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Trace the historical relationship between American Indian
and Euoramerican cultures. (I) |
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Identify and explain challenges to the philosophical study
of American Indian thought.(I) |
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Contrast American Indian theories of the creation of the world
with Euroamerican theories of the creation of the
world. (II) |
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Contrast
American Indian views of the relationship between knowledge and art with Euoramerican views of the relationship between knowledge
and art. (III) |
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Describe American Indian and Euoramerican
views on where knowledge come from the forms knowledge can take. (IV) |
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Contrast American Indian and Euoramerican
views on the relationship of the scared and the profane. (V) |
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Explain American Indian and Euoramerican
approaches to the problem of evil. (V) |
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MCCCD
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REL246 2013
Spring - 9999 |
American Indian and Euroamerican
Comparative Worldviews |
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I. Historical Backgrounds
and Challenges A. Fundamental concepts 1. Religion 2. Worldview B. History of the cultural
and political encounter between Euroamerican and American
Indian 1. History of the cultural
and political encounter between Euroamerican and
American Indian 2. History of the study of
American Indian a. Progress in Ethnology
and Religious Studies b. Philosophical neglect C. Challenges to the
philosophical study of American Indian thought 1. Euroamerican
philosophical assumptions 2. American Indian
diversity 3. American Indian orality II. Metaphysics and
Religion A. Cosmogony 1. Euroamerican
creation of matter 2. American Indian
transformation of matter B. Ontology 1. Euroamerican
dualism 2. American Indian personalism III. Epistemology and
Aesthetics A. Euroamerican
1. Platonic separation of
art and cognition 2. Secular affirmation of
empiricism B. American Indian 1. Dependence of knowing on
narrative, dramatic, and visual arts 2. Shamanism, dreams,
visions, vision quests IV. Ethics and Aesthetics A. Euroamerican
1. Sources of knowledge:
separation of reason and revelation 2. Claims to knowledge:
anthropocentrism B. American Indian 1. Sources of knowledge:
integration of reason and vision 2. Claims to knowledge:
celebration of the earth V. Philosophy of Religion A. Euroamerican
1. Separation of sacred and
profane 2. Monotheism as
Evangelistic 3. The problem of evil B. American Indian 1. Continuity of sacred and
profane 2. Multiple personalism 3. Ambiguity of evil |