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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Explores ethical issues confronted by corporations operating in the global marketplace, where laws, moral standards and cultural customs can vary widely from country to country. Possible issues to be discussed: bribery, environmental and safety standards, fair wages, sales and marketing, business-government relations, and the role of multinational corporations in developing nations. To assess the morals of multinational corporations, a number of cases will be analyzed from the perspective of a variety of ethical frameworks. I
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission An opportunity for students to examine in depth special issues and problems of business and professional ethics. Possible topics include accounting ethics, computer ethics, ethics and business-government relations, legal ethics, medical ethics, ethics and the problem of distributive justice, and private property.
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Presents a critical survey of Western philosophical tradition from its foundation among the pre-Socratic and Greek philosophers to its extension and synthesis with Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought in the medieval period. Inquiries into such ideas as nature, justice, happiness, love, immortality of the soul, the nature of God and the existence of evil, and the relationship between reason and revelation and between providence and free will.
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Examines the work of important philosophers from the 16th to 19th centuries. Includes topics such as foundations for knowledge of the physical world, the nature of mind and matter, freedom and determinism, moral values, liberty, the existence of God and the authority of religion, and human liberation. Philosophers to be studied are chosen from Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Marx.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Examines the enduring questions concerning the nature of the good life as they arise with a new urgency in our world of rapid change and technology. Topics include technological control and human freedom; meaninglessness and alienation; reality, language and ethics; and the question of the diverse views of the purpose of philosophy. Some representative schools of philosophy are pragmatism, process philosophy, dialectical materialism, analytical philosophy and existentialism.
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Examines the ideas of American thinkers who represent both the diversity and the continuity of the American philosophical perspective. Philosophers to be studied will include the pragmatists and may also include Native Americans, African Americans, the Puritans, the Founding Fathers, the transcendentalists, the personalists, and contemporary philosophers who are building on the foundations of traditional American philosophy. Topics discussed may include the values of a pluralistic society, civil disobedience, the impact of religious beliefs and scientific theories on philosophy in America, and differing interpretations of the meaning of the American experience.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Surveys important traditional and contemporary ethical positions with emphasis on relating reflective morality to life in the world today. Includes an investigation of absolutism versus relativism, egoism versus altruism, utilitarianism, denotology, the nature of good, and the justification of ethical theories.
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission This course examines the most important questions that we can ask about our beliefs: When should we take something that we believe to be knowledge and not mere belief What sort of evidence, reasons or assurances must we have for some belief we hold in order to be justified in holding it How should we respond to those skeptics who deny that we have knowledge about this for that area of human concern (for example, of ultimate reality, of ethics or of God) And how should we respond to the radical skeptic who denies that we have any knowledge at all The course will gain focus on these and similar questions in order to help the student gain a deeper understanding of the nature and limits of human knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission This course is concerned with questions having to do with the nature of existence or reality. Concerning the nature of existence or reality, some have held that everything that exists ultimately reduces to material things or processes, "Atoms dancing in the void" as the ancient materialist, Democritus, put it. Others (Bishop Berkeley, for example) have denied the reality of the physical world entirely, asserting that everything that exists is ultimately reducible to spiritual or mind like things. On the other hand, many in the Western world have embraced some form of metaphysical dualism, which affirms the reality of both the spiritual and the material world, still others (for example, certain Hindus) have denied all such categories, affirming that everything, except for the indivisible, indescribable One, is an illusion. Finally, there are those, for example, certain pragmitists and postmodernists, who claim that we should completely abandon the entire construct.
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Prerequisite(s): PH 101 or instructor's permission Examines the philosophical and religious values and systems of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism and Islam. Emphasizes their historical development and the sociocultural interreflection of theory and practice, together with a comparative analysis of Eastern and Western philosophy.
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