PHIL 313 - Philosophical Readings Modern

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Viterbo University

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3 Cr. Students will cover selections from original and/or secondary texts on philosophers from a given historical period, learning the contrasts and developments of great ideas pertaining to such questions (among many others) as the existence or non-existence of God, the relationship between faith, skepticism, and reason, free will and determinism, relationship between philosophy and the origins of science, the basis of human ethics, the nature of the mind/soul, and the role of senses versus reason in the origin of human knowledge. Time period covered is 16th through early 19th century with readings from some of the following thinkers: Descartes, Pascal, Hume, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard. Students are strongly encouraged to have had either 100 or 101 prior to taking this course. G3, G9

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.viterbo.edu

Phone Number:

(608) 796-3000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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