Core Theme

The primary focus of IB Philosophy is the exploration of what it means to be human. The textbook is divided into six different concepts that are important to this question.

1. Human nature
2. Personhood
3. Mind and body
4. The self and the other
5. Freedom
6. Identity

These are some of the important questions that this course attempts to answer:

• What does it mean to be human?
• Is there such a thing as the self?
• Can we really ever know the other?
• Is how we interact with others what makes us human?
• Has what it means to be human been changed/shaped by technologies such as the internet?
• What can discoveries in neuroscience tell us about what it is to be human?