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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Pre- Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Prerequisite: 3 hours of philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
The study of Plato, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism, including Philo, Plotinus, and Proclus, and the influence of Platonism on the Greek church fathers of the 2nd-5th centuries, principally Origen and Gregory of Nyssa and also Pseudo-Dionysius. Prerequisite: 3 hours of philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Includes Augustine, Bonventure, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.
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3.00 Credits
British and Continental philosophy, including Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major Continental European philosophers of the 19th century including Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche. Emphasis on the nature of persons, the question of freedom, and the importance of self-expression, as well as views on knowledge, reality, and the nature of philosophy. Prerequisite: 3 hours of Philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Study of major figures (e.g. Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida) and trends (phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, deconstruction) in 20th century French and German thought. Topics include human beings and their place in the world, the role of history and culture, and the possibility of critical reflection.
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3.00 Credits
From Frege to recent figures, including Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Schlick, Carnep, Ayer, Ryle, Strawson, Quine, including a representative sample of works on the logical analysis of language, logical positivism, and ordinary language analysis. Prerequisite: 3 hours of philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in major figures associated with "Existentialism" (e.g. Kierkegaard,Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty). Emphasis on connections between the metaphysical views of these thinkers, their views of freedom, their conceptions of modernity, and their responses to it.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover subject matter not covered in regularly offered courses. May be repeated twice for a maximum of 6 hours of credit, as content will vary. May be repeated for up to 6 hours of degree credit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected philosophical theories of society, the state, social justice, and their connections with individuals.
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