General Studies Notes Form 5 & 6 – All Topics
GENERAL STUDIES
The General Studies subject is a multi-disciplinary course for advanced level certificate students in Tanzania. The subject places emphasis on the nurturing of important skills. Eg. communication skills, critical thinking, problem solving skills, and participation skills which can be translated into practices.
Meaning of Philosophy
Webster dictionary conceptualized man as a human being, but at comprehensive level a man is a human race or being. A human being has direct relationship with philosophy and religion as well. (Ishumi and Nyirenda, 2002:3) conceptualized philosophy at two levels, etymologically and comprehensive ones
Etymologically the term philosophy is a Greek word which is derived from two words which are “Philos” and “Sophia” meaning “Love” and “Wisdom” respectively. Therefore from the two words, philosophy means love or the pursuit of wisdom. However, from the meaning given here one may not be able to get a real and profound meaning of the concept philosophy.
This is because loving wisdom does not make someone a philosopher, if it could be a philosopher since everyone loves wisdom and wants to be a wise man in a society. Therefore, being a philosopher there is a more than loving the wisdom. The complete meaning of philosophy is in its comprehensives and detailed meaning.
At comprehensive level, philosophy means rational critical thinking in a more or less systematic kind about general nature of the world or reality, the justification of belief, the conduct of life and correct reasoning. It is the study that tries to speculate about the reality of existence of everything in the world.
Since several things of various kinds make up the world, many people have been contradicting on formation or origin of all these things on the Earth .
Some believe that everything was created by super natural power known as God, and therefore he is himself responsible in everything relating to creation, formation and existence. Some people don’t agree with this argument, they try to study many forces and circumstance that cause the formation of different things on the world.
These forces to them are seen as the main cause for existence of something on earth like mountain, rivers, lakes and so forth.
Philosophy as a discipline engages fully in these debate to find out the reality of existence of all things on earth through correct reasoning. Philosophy always asks questions like how do we know? What is fact? How much do we know?.
Meaning and nature of religion
Religion concept her been defined different by anthropologists, sociologist, philosophers and theologists as follows
An anthropologist Anthony Wallace (1966:5) defined a religion as a belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, power and force .To anthropologists two concepts have been put in place which is belief associated with supernatural beings and rituals. In this regards belief is defined as a trust or accept as true, ritual can be defined as an order especially of religious ceremony. Therefore, a religion is something which is accepted by people on the present of supernatural being who is believed by the people through a certain ritual.
But according to the Advanced Learners Dictionary of the firth edition (1995) defined religion as a belief in the existence of God or Gods especially the belief that they created the universe and gave human beings their spiritual nature which continue to exist after the death of the body. Therefore, with these definitions attending to worshipping places by the group of certain religion revisit to an introduction part of this concept. It can be a body of a belief which is followed by a group of people for prayer (in worshipping places).
TOPIC 1: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION | FORM 5 & 6
TOPIC 2: CONTEMPORARY/CROSS CUTTING ISSUES IN TANZANIA | FORM 5 & 6
TOPIC 3: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT | FORM 5 & 6
TOPIC 4: DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND PRACTICES |FORM 5 & 6
TOPIC 5: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | FORM 5 & 6
TOPIC 6: LIFE SKILLS | FORM 5 & 6
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