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3.00 Credits
This course takes as its focus the rich and enduring philosophical synthesis of the Bishop of Hippo as compared with two of his modern/contemporary disciples, Blaise Pascal and Albert Camus.These three thinkers came from three very different eras, and these differences should not be minimized.However, students discover a common strain in their thinking during this course.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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What is the difference between knowledge and mere belief or opinion What do we really know, and how do we know it Epistemology - the study of knowledge - is the branch of philosophy concerned with such questions.The course explores epistemological issues through an examination of some of the important contributions to the field.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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This course considers the evolution of political thinking from the golden age of Athenian democracy to the dawn of the modern period.It takes as its focus the changing views of the body politic from Plato through Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Marsilius to Renaissance thinkers like More and Machiavelli.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the problem of the existence of God, including the metaphysical and epistemological issues entailed therein, as developed by such thinkers as Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, Kant, and Hartshorne.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns itself with being and our knowledge of being, developing in student minds an operative habit of viewing reality in its ultimate context.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies and compares the sometimes conflicting, sometimes complementary traditions in the history of Western thought: the intellective and the affective or mystical.One stresses the ability of the reason to know, even something of the divine; the other abandons the reason for the "one thing necessary." Philosophers include Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Bernard, Bonaventure, Thomas d'Aquino, Eckhart, and Dante.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits
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This course focuses on Aquinas's most mature work, Summa theologiae.This work exemplifies the Christian intellectual reaction to Islamic Aristotelianism, while at the same time bearing witness to Thomas's belief in the unity of truth.The course examines and analyzes such questions as the existence and intelligibility of God, the nature and powers of the human composite, human destiny, the human act, good and evil, providence and freedom, natural law, and the virtues.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Nineteenth- and 20th-century continental philosophy calls into question the traditional understanding of religion, God, transcendence, incarnation, sacrifice, responsibility, evil, and ritual.This course explores the transformation of the traditional understanding of these ideas in the wake of thinkers such as Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Lacan, Levinas, Girard, Nancy, Derrida, and Marion.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the question of evolutionary theory from the perspectives of philosophy and biology.From the biological perspective, the course focuses on Mendelian inheritance, natural and sexual selection, speciation, and human evolution.From the philosophical perspective, the course focuses on questions such as essentialism vs.population thinking, Cartesianism vs.dialectical thinking, the developmental systems critique, self-organization, complexity theory, thermodynamics, human nature, and theology.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an in-depth understanding of the philosophy of David Hume.Hume, one of the most interesting (and influential) of the 18th-century philosophers, made major contributions to our understanding of causation, morality, and the mind, to name just a few.Hume began with principles that seemed quite plausible but, taking these ideas to their logical conclusions, arrived at a philosophy that is, to say the least, surprising.(Prerequisites: PH 10 and one 100-level philosophy course) Three credits.
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