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3.00 Credits
The course will examine the impact on various forms of religious expression of secularization and the resulting marginalization of regional ideological perspectives that are a result of increased globalization. Attention will be given to the roles played by religious nationalism and fundamentalism as they stand in tension with growing ecumenicalism, religious parochial and relativistic pluralism, and the increased growth of alternative religions. Special attention will be given to the philosophical arguments that are employed in support of these conflicting perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
The course will begin with an analysis of Buddhism's origins within Hinduism and the early development of its religious beliefs and philosophical concepts in India. It will continue with an in depth look at its spread throughout Asia and the transformation of its core beliefs and concepts within the main traditions of Theravada, Mahayana, and the Vajrayana. The course will include a study of current global trends, such as the rise of politcal and social engagement and the impact of Buddhism on western philosophical traditions including existentialism and phenomenology.
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3.00 Credits
Systematic investigation of some of the salient issues currently discussed by social and political philosophers, such as the nature and origin of the state, political obligation, justice, human rights, authority, liberty and evaluation of social and political institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Analytic investigation of sexism in English in order to facilitate discussion of the relation between language, thought and reality.
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3.00 Credits
Analytic examination of the concept of femininity as found in the biological and social sciences in order to facilitate discussion of the nature of objectivity and scientific investigation.
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3.00 Credits
This curse is an introduction to central themes in Indian philosophy. Students will explore issues in the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics of the Vedas and Unaishads, Carvaka, Buddhism, Jainism, Sankhya Yoga, Nyaya Vaiseshika and Advaita Vedanta. The course will focus specifically on views of the self as presented in Advaita Vedanta. Contemporary thinkers such as Vivekanada, Krisknamurti, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will engage in an examination of law and legal systems, as well as of the ideas, ideologies, and principles that are at the core of the establishment and interpretation of law. The pervasive presence of law in our lives should encourage us not only to understand it, but to scrutinize its foundations and presuppositions. Toward this end, we will pay special attention to three aspects of philosophy of law: analytic jurisprudence, normative jurisprudence, and critical law theory.
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3.00 Credits
Latin American decolonial theorists argue that European Modernism's beginnings lie in 1492 with the Spanish occupation of what we call the Americas, and that Enlightenment ideals are embedded in practices developed through conquest and colonization. Highlighting the Eurocentrism of Anglo-European Philosophy, these theorists offer significantly different and interesting philosophical understanding which attend to colonial power relations, and move us toward polycentric thinking and action. In addition, we will explore a particular history of resistance from within the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Mexico against global capital. And we will explore texts of popular education in challenging the theory/practice divide.
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with the recognition that racism is prevalent in the United States. Critical Race Theorists confront the historical centrality of white supremacy and the complicity of the law in upholding, indeed constructing, racism. Following the challenge to ahistoricism and acontextualism embedded in standard legal practice brought by Critical Legal Theorists, Critical Race Theorists address racism as embedded in U.S. legal structure. We will examine the law's role in the construction and maintenance of social domination and subordination in order to understand and articulate a critical race theoretical approach to the intersections of race, gender, class and the law.
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3.00 Credits
How ought we behave towards nature and what are the implications of human interaction with ecosystems? We will pay special attention to the value of restored nature and whether it is a form of human domination or whether restoration is a legitimate endeavor to be pursued out of moral obligation. We will integrate actual cases into the class in order to flesh out the policy implications of our philosophical commitments.
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