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is a service course to other departments whose students need a knowledge
of the basic ways of reasoning, through studying sentential logic, and
the ways to avoid irrational reasoning, through studying informal fallacies.
Students are expected to be able to apply what they learn to the analysis
and critique on the logical dimension of arguments about substantive issues.
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The
course provides an intensive teaching of the relation between the main
dimensions of Chinese culture and its socio-economic-political structure
through analyzing the roles and functions of different socio-economic-political
structures of different eras, social and philosophical thoughts of eminent
intellectuals, religious leaders and their thoughts, and the consequential
manifestations in arts, literature, education and science, from ancient
to modern. The impacts of foreign cultures in ancient times and the influence
of western ideas and its consequential revolution-ary change in the Chinese
society are also analyzed. Students are required to do analytical thinking
on the main topics taught. |