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4.00 Credits
Focuses on basic questions about the nature of the state and the relationship of individuals to the state. What basis is there for individuals to obey the laws of the state What conditions must a government meet to be legitimate What justification can be given for democratic forms of government Also examines what sorts of controls the state should exert over citizens, and what benefits citizens have a right to expect from the state. Includes readings from both classical and contemporary sources.
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4.00 Credits
Attempts to answer the questions: What is economic justice What are the criteria by which we tell whether a society is (or is not) an economically just society Looks at views on these issues developed by advocates of capitalism, socialism, and the welfare state.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes several key prophets of the Hebrew Bible, such as Amos, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. Explores the cultural and historical contexts in which their prophecies originally arose. Examines the various ways in which prophecy has been interpreted within both Judaism and Christianity.
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4.00 Credits
Offers students the opportunity to understand the Bible as it is continually interpreted by believing communities in their own social and religious contexts. By appreciating the process of scriptural interpretation and the various sources of authority for it, allows us to see contemporary theological conflicts in a broader perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the variety of responses to the mass death brought on by the Holocaust. Examines the responses of theology, and literature, as well as relevant ethical issues.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the philosophy of classical Greece. The philosophers considered have distinctive views of the nature of the material world and of the person, so the course covers both metaphysical and moral writings. Texts are primarily from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Some consideration is given to early Greek philosophers, to the Sophists, and to later developments. Requires written analysis of philosophical texts.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the writings of two major medieval Christian philosophers (Augustine and Aquinas), two major medieval Muslim philosophers (al-Ghazali and ibn Rushd [Averro s]), and two major medieval Jewish philosophers (Saadia Gaon and Maimonides). Focuses on the following themes: the conception of sin, God's existence, the problem of God's foreknowledge and our free will, God's nature, God's justice, the creation of the universe, the priority of reason versus faith, the literal versus metaphorical nature of religious language, and the soul's immortali
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the hundred years between 1650 and 1750, sometimes called "the century of genius." It was a period in which philosophers reacted to the new scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. Out of this reaction came new ways of thinking about the nature of knowledge and the nature of reality. Focuses on such major figures as the rationalists Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza, and the empiricists Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on a variety of nineteenth-century thinkers, such as Hegel, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Darwin.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on various attributes of human beings, such as intelligence, sexuality, and language, in the context of biological, psychological, linguistic, and philosophical views of human nature.
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