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3.00 Credits
A study of knowledge in the context of belief, ignorance, and error, with attention to truth and falsity, justification, explanation, desirability of knowledge, the distinction between useful and liberal knowledge, and relativism. Area II. Prerequisites: 201 and 202, or 211 and 212, or equivalent.
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A philosophical examination of action and political life; work, labor, and technology; friendship; privacy and publicness; justice and other virtues; cities, states, and nations; nature and convention; the moral and the legal. Area I. Prerequisites: 201 and 202, or 211 and 212, or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
The discovery of natural right as the origin of political philosophy. Topics include classic natural right in its Socratic-Platonic, Aristotelian, and Thomistic forms,as well as natural right and natural law. Machiavelli and modern natural law and right in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, the attack on natural right in the name of ¿history.¿ Area I. Prerequisites: 201 and 202, or 211 and 212, or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Treatment of the general nature of deductive argument, language, and logic; syllogistic (Aristotelian) logic; propositional and predicate logic (first-order). Major emphasis on modern symbolic techniques. Offered both semesters. Area I. Prerequisites: 201 and 202, or 211 and 212, or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
The beginning of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus. Emphasis is placed on nature and language as the origin of philosophical problems in Heraclitus, Parmenides and Plato. Key elements of Aristotle¿s philosophy are presented with an emphasis on categories and the background for metaphysics. Skepticism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism are explored in relation to materialism, fate, and natural law. Concentrators only.
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3.00 Credits
The history of philosophy from the Fathers of the Church until the end of Scholasticism. Emphasis is placed upon texts by Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. Topics covered include the nature of being, the existence and attributes of God, the human person, and the problem of faith and reason. The course builds upon the study of ancient philosophy and provides essential background for the study of early modern philosophy. Concentrators only.
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3.00 Credits
Historical and theoretical analysis of the nature of metaphysical thinking; being; essence-existence; matter-form; substance-accident; person and supposit; efficient and final causality, transcendentals and the problem of evil. Concentrators only.
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3.00 Credits
Historical and theoretical analysis of the nature of metaphysical thinking; being; essence-existence; matter-form; substance-accident; person and supposit; efficient and final causality, transcendentals and the problem of evil. Concentrators only. Prerequisite: 355.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of professional activity as essentially related to human fulfillment, both personal and social. Also treats, using case studies, standards for good judgment in matters specific to engineering, including risk assessment, whistleblowing, and environmental protection. Offered only for juniors and seniors in the School of Engineering.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of basic speech techniques and drama skills applied to the language and action of the liturgy. Students learn through lecture, classroom discussion, and ongoing development of skills and group critique. Leading prayer in the seminary community also serves as a practicum. For seminarians only.
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