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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Companies: Critical Thinking Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
10 valuable critical thinking exercises ranging in subject matter. Includes questions and exercises regarding biological development, language usage, morals, values and ethics, and thought cycles.
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Handout
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Thomas Hobbes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a comprehensive survey of the life and philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. It discusses his writings as well as his ideas on moral and political philosophy.
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Article
Other

The Islamic Supreme Council of America: Understanding Islamic Law

For Students 9th - 10th
The multi-faceted areas of Islamic law are discussed. The article is divided into sections, the first is a discussion of invoking divine principle and human reason. The next is the Islamist's understanding of Shari'ah otherwise known as...
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Article
Boston University

Boston University: St. Mary's University: Plato's Moral Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
St. Mary's University provides an essay that argues that Plato's psychology was distinctively defined by his ethical orientations and the necessities of his theory of justice.
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Website
On Being

American Public Media: Reinhold Niebuhr: Does His Legacy Have a Future?

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which examines the major ideas of the theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, and their impact on America during the 20th century and what use they have in current American life.
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Lesson Plan
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Introducing Myself & Others

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plans teachers can use to promote self-understanding, cultural understanding, and the interconnectedness of people and cultures.
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eBook
Other

National Academies Press: Adolescent Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reviews the various theories on how people make decisions. There is a focus on the process in adolescents.
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Website
Other

In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues

For Students 9th - 10th
In Character is an online journal that examines a single virtue--compassion, creativity, purpose, modesty, loyalty, or thrift, for example--from different perspectives. Articles are written by noted scholars, journalists, and critics,...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Integrity

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing a definition of "integrity," this article has information on the various ways in which integrity manifests in popular culture, law, and science. Contains several links to articles on related topics.
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Handout
Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: Aristotle (384 322 Bce)

For Students 9th - 10th
The life, philosophy and metaphysics of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) are surveyed. The aim of Aristotle's logical treatises (known as the Organon) was to develop a universal method of reasoning by means of which it would be possible to learn...
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Handout
New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Catholic Encyclopedia: Herbartianism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article gives an overview of Herbart's life and work in psychology, philosophy and education. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated...
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Unit Plan
Brown University

Brown University: The Decameron Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people...
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Website
City University of New York

Chinese Cultural Studies: Confucius Kongfuzi: The Analects, Excerpts

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a large number of excerpts from the "Analects" by Confucius. These quotes are divided into seven themes of Confucian teaching, humaneness, the superior man, rites, music, learning and teaching, government, and rectifying the...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Relativism, Reason, Reality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Questioning the theory of relativism, use this collection of resources to help aide or prompt discussion on topics such as morality or rationality.

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