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Examination of the origins and development of moral philosophy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Starting in the seventeenth century, the notion that morality was solely based on the will of the Christian God began to wane. Without an external moral authority, philosophers turned to other ways of distinguishing right from wrong. The Christian picture of human good as union with God also began to disappear. Instead the dominant view of human nature became a picture of autonomous individuals pursuing their own interests and potentially in conflict with each other. Philosophers examined will include Hume and Kant. May be taken to fulfill either the history of philosophy or the ethics requirement.
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An examination of the major views on the nature of human beings. The mind-body problem and the problem of freedom will be discussed.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of the instructor Examination of Plato’s dialogues, exploring important ethical, epistemological, metaphysical and social views articulated within them, such as the unity of the virtues, weakness of the will, the theory of the Forms, the theory of recollection, the just individual and the just state, platonic love, to name a few. Important dialogues will be covered and critically examined. Questions concerning the dramatic and literary qualities of Plato’s philosophical work may also be addressed.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of the instructor Examination of the writings of Aristotle, a student of Plato, examining his systematic approach to philosophy. Aristotle’s contributions to the development of logic, his view of the soul, the divine, and literary criticism (poetics), may be addressed in addition to his important views regarding metaphysics, ethics and the study of the natural world. Questions regarding the coherence and consistency of Aristotle’s system may be addressed as well as the relation between his thought and Plato’s.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of the instructor In-depth survey of the philosophies of stoicism, epicureanism, and skepticism, as they developed following the end of the “classical age” (323 BC) through the first century AD. These philosophies tend to be concerned with the individual person and how s/he may live well; related ethical themes, in addition to views about free will and the criterion of truth, may be explored.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of instructor Examination of a period of philosophy that was both a continuation of the Ancient Greek tradition and a precursor of Modern philosophy. This course will cover philosophy from Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions, examining both the questions that characterized medieval philosophical inquiry and also distinctive literary forms through which philosophers presented their arguments.
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The course will be concerned with an examination of the major themes in Plato’s philosophy.& Readings will be taken from dialogues of all three ‘“periods’,” but emphasis will be placed upon the “middle dialogues.”
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of instructor Detailed study of Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated as a response to an historical view of subjectivity initiated by Descartes and continued by Kant and Husserl. More broadly, the course examines Heidegger’s view that his philosophy was a corrective to the tradition of Western meta-physics. Heidegger’s influence on Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer, among others, is examined. The implications of Heidegger’s thinking in relation to theories of human cognition and the possibility of artificial intelligence is also explored.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of instructor Examination of the recurring themes of objectivity, realism, truth, relativism, and the interpretive nature of human inquiry. The course critically evaluates some implicit assumptions functioning in the philosophical endeavor from its inception. Attention is paid to philosophers who have, in some sense or other, attempted to overcome their respective traditions. Readings include work by Rorty, Davidson, Quine, Putnam, Gadamer, Derrida, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.
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Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy or consent of instructor A study of the various currents of continental European thought in this century with special concentration on existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merlea-Ponty, Saussure, Levi Strauss, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Derrida, and others are discussed.
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