HUM 110 - Four Perspectives

• Identify common and disparate themes between the teachings of Pythagoras, Galileo, the Buddha, and Jesus Christ.
• Evaluate the transformative effects of not-so-obvious ideas on their own life and on human life in general.
• Explain the historical significance and context of major ideas of Pythagoras, Galileo, the Buddha, and Jesus Christ.
• Apply the major ideas of Pythagoras, Galileo, the Buddha, and Jesus Christ to their own lives.
• Explain how the three key ideas of Pythagoras helped lay the foundations of modern science and mathematics.
• Differentiate between the teachings of Jesus Christ and later doctrinal accretions.
• Differentiate between the scientific method, medieval scholasticism, and pseudo-science.
• Critique their own beliefs using logical fallacies and the scientific method.

1. Plate Tectonics Theory
2. the Atomic Model
3. the Periodic Table Model
4. the Big Bang Theory
5. Evolution
6. The profound teachings of Buddha and some key ideas of Buddhist art
7. Fundamental ideas of Christianity and the lived Christian experience
8. Pythagoras’ approach to the Ionian and Melesian philosophers’ dilemna of the Î±Ïχη