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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of particular themes related to an understanding of the relation of humans to the environment. Some years will focus on a particular area, such as environmental ethics, philosophies of technology, or philosophies of nature.
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Study of the two great systematic philosophers of ancient Greece, with attention to the development of their thought in subsequent periods and to the contemporary philosophical debates which they influence.
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3.00 Credits
Study of philosophers and philosophical systems of the Enlightenment: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
Study of Hegel and the reactions to his system in Marx, Mill, the American Pragmatists, and Nietzsche. Prerequisite: PHIL 285 or 295, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
Study of women's experience under patriarchy and of the philosophical, theological, and social criticisms arising there from.
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3.00 Credits
The philosophical analysis and evaluation of ethical issues pertinent to establishing and maintaining the goods of friendship, family, and community. This course will examine such questions as these: What virtues make flourishing relationships possible? What vices make them impossible? When, if ever, is respecting one anothers' rights not enough? Is "love" always enough? What are the ethical boundaries of different kinds of love? What moral obligations are entailed by our powers as sexual, procreative beings
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Study and evaluation of the major ethical theories that are structuring the context of our contemporary moral debates, regardless of the concrete issue at stake. The course focuses upon understanding and comparing theories about what principles should guide human action, what kind of living constitutes the truly good life, and in what sense judgments regarding moral value have "objective" answers.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical issues related to science and the scientific method with readings from Hempel, Popper, Kuhn, and others. Recommended: major in philosophy or a science.
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3.00 Credits
Study and evaluation of the major philosophical theories and controversies shaping our contemporary political debates over such issues as the nature of social and economic justice, the meaning of equality, the limits of individual freedom, the sources of political obligation, and the characteristics of a well ordered society.
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3.00 Credits
Study and evaluation of classical and contemporary arguments regarding such issues as the nature and existence of God, the nature of religious faith and its relationship to reason, the meaning and epistemic value of religious experience, the "problem of evil," and the relationship between religion and morality . Cross-listed as RELI 370.
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