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This course explores the relationship between humanity and the non-human natural world in Native American religions; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the West; and Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism in the East. Students will examine the claim that Western religions are the source of the values that have contributed to environmental degradation as well as responses to this claim. The course also examines efforts to re-interpret religious traditions in ways that are nonanthropocentric (non-human centered) as religious traditions have engaged in dialogue with one another. (Same course as REL 2089). This course is recommended for students with sophomore standing or above.
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Alternate Fall Semesters Leads the student to understand perennially important philosophical problems — such as the natures of matter, mind, goodness, beauty, and knowledge — through meeting them in their simplest, most direct, yet profound, terms as they were discovered and dealt with by such philosophers as the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Western thought is emphasized, but some attention is given to Eastern outlooks. This course is excellent for students at all levels.
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Alternate Spring Semesters Begins with the transition from medieval to modern times, and traces the development of Western philosophy to the start of the twentieth century. This course is recommended for students with sophomore standing or above.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Spring Semesters Presents a study of selected aspects of twentieth century philosophy, including developments in traditional philosophical schools of thought, as well as pragmatism, process philosophy, and phenomenology. This course is recommended for students with sophomore standing or above.
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3.00 Credits
Offered Periodically Assists in forming habits of logical thinking through study of the fundamental rules of logic and practice in detecting logical inconsistencies. One goal is to make the student a more critical “consumer” of news, advertising, and political statement. Thiscourse is recommended for students with sophomore standing or above.
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3.00 Credits
Is there an ultimate meaning to human existence, or is life absurd? In the past century, existentialist philosophers like Kierkegaard, Sartre, and others have denied that human life has any essential meaning, offering a sharp challenge to traditional systems of meaning like religion and ethics. Yet they have explored ways of making life worthwhile. This course shall examin existentialist texts (stories and novels, as well as philosophical writings) and films that will challenge each individual to discover and/or create a meaningful life. This course is excellent for students at all levels.
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Offered Periodically Examines the relations between everyday concepts of reality and those of science, the relations between present science and the history of science, as well as history taken more generally, and the epistemological basis of science.This course is recommended for students with sophomore standing or above.
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3.00 Credits
Fall Semester It is widely recognized globally today that American philosophy is rather distinctive, with some very original features in the history of philosophy. This course deals with some of these distinctive features, such as its naturalism, its non-anthropocentrism, its pragmatism, its emphasis on freedom, and its relational view of the self. We shall start with the roots of Classical American philosophy from Puritanism, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism, and follow its development down to today. Representative thinkers include (but are not limited to) Emerson, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Addams, Whitehead, Bernstein, Rorty, West, and Siegfried. Special sections will deal with the contributions of African-Americans and of women as well as explore affinities with Native American traditions. This course is excellent for students at all levels.
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Offered Periodically This course examines the myth of the hero as an archetypal transcultural phenomenon. We shall explore how hero is a symbol of the self and its search for identity and meaning. We shall also look at critiques of these ideas. The course will begin with Siddhartha Gautama’s (the Buddha) search for Enlightment and Herman Hesse’s modern account of a parallel story in Siddhartha. Then we shall study the ancient warrior heroes in Homer’s The Illiad. The course then considers how Jesus may fit the understanding of the hero in the ancient world. Then we move to consider the myth of the hero in medieval chivalry moving on to the modern world, the romantic hero, and the anti-hero. Throughout the course, we shall make extensive use of films (such as Rebel Without a Cause) and analyze the myth of the hero as it appears in the contemporary context. This course is excellent for students at all levels. All 3000-level Philosophy courses require junior standing or successful completion of a 1000- or 2000-level Philosophy course, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Alternate Spring Semesters This is a course designed to acquaint the student with the main historical currents of social and political philosophy. It will focus on such thematic issues as the parallels between the “good society”and the “good individual;” views about “human nature” and tforms of governnment that result from these views; “the state of nature” and the social contract; various views of the state (conservatism, liberalism, socialism, anarchism, Marxism, fascism, “actually existing” communism); rights and freedom; distributive justice, liberation, and participation (economic justice; racial justice; justice and gender) individualism and communitarianism; and “green” political thought. (Same course as P&H 3000).
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