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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Selected dialogues of Plato. Problems and topics include: Plato's criticisms of Greek philosophy; the roles of love, poetry, and rhetoric in human knowledge and morality; the concept of forms. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Aristotle's philosophy of man, ethics, and metaphysics, and its importance to subsequent philosophers. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Spring Semester A course on the philosophy of Socrates. Students will study Plato's early Socratic dialogues as well as texts by Xenophon and Aristophanes. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Encounter of Greek philosophical theories with Christianity as seen through the works of representative medieval thinkers, especially Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 In the 13th century when Aristotle's ideas were presented in Latin to the Christian theologians, a revolution in Western philosophical thought resulted. The problems concerning the origin of the universe, the nature of reality and the individuality of the human soul became the central questions in philosophical and theological discourse. At the center of the intellectual controversies is the figure of Thomas Aquinas. Thomas, the most rational of theologians or the most religious of philosophers provided profound and innovative solutions to metaphysical, epistemological and moral problems. This course will examine his sources, his solutions and the responses of his contemporaries. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Renaissance skepticism and the birth of Cartesianism. Descartes' mathematicism and the methodic doubt. The Meditations. The thinking self, proofs for God's existence, Cartesian dualism, and the problem of mind-body interaction. Locke's critique of innate ideas. Berkeley's immaterialism. Hume'sempiricism as a prelude to Kantianism. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Issues from The Critique of Pure Reason will be addressed first, such as the difference between the thing in itself and appearance. Then Kant's moral philosophy will be discussed in detail. Slow and careful reading required. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Fall Semester Roots of Marxism in Hegel and Feuerbach. Humanism of young Marx. Praxis and alienation. History as dialectical. Nature of communism. Collaborative works of Marx and Engels. The later Engels and modern materialism. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 The Existentialist thinkers of the 20th Century vigorously protested the abstraction and sterility of certain kinds of philosophical and theological discourse and demanded that we confront the life and death, flesh and blood issues of our existence. The course will examine the sources of their existential protest in the thought of the 19th Century thinkers Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and progress through a discussion of the major figures and works in the Existentialist movement of the 20th Century. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An introduction to the thought of the most seminal philosopher of the 20th century. Topics discussed include the critique of metaphysics, theology, science, and technology; the structure of being-in- theworld; time and history; anxiety, death, radical finitude and authentic existence. Consideration of Heidegger's influence on contemporary thinking in philosophy and in all the major disciplines. Prerequisite: GP 100 or GP 140.
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