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3.00 Credits
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Study of the basis of modern thought and practice in the ancient philosophers and schools from the origins of Greek philosophy to the triumph of Christianity. Emphasis on the formation of those Western ideas and ideals most pertinent to contemporary society. Recommended for all students in Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Upper-division introduction to philosophy for students with little or no background in philosophy. Covers those philosophies from the 17th through the 19th centuries that have had the greatest impact on the making of the modern mind and on the development of contemporary civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Political philosophy is the search for "the best way to live" ?hat Socrates and Plato called "the Good Life". This is thefoundational course of political science. It approaches the problems of contemporary life, as experienced by the individual, from a "big picture" understanding of humannature. This draws from anthropology, psychology, and world history. It brings to bear on the present the wisdom of primordial, classical, modern, and post-modern political philosophy. (Cross-list POLS 302) (DH)
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Examines the history, philosophy, and politics of science. Studies of major ideas in the history of science and of contemporary perspectives on the methods, purpose, scope, and limits of science. Offers students an understanding of scientific thought and practice from a humanistic perspective. (Cross-list HIST/POLS 308) (DH)
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3.00 Credits
Study of the 20th century thinkers and ideas which have most influenced contemporary life. Studies the relations of thought and action, attempts to resolve the age-old human dilemmas by new techniques of analysis and description, evolutionary thinking, the crisis of the individual in the technological world, and other contemporary issues. Recommended for students in all divisions. (DH)
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3.00 Credits
Why do we have laws? Study of the origin and justifications of legal systems, who makes the laws, what makes laws just, and the relation of law to ethical and other non-legal values. (DH)
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3.00 Credits
Study of major ethical theories such as Virtue Ethics, Deontology, Utilitarianism, Existential Ethics, and Care Ethics as well as contemporary ethics issues such as abortion, death penalty, same-sex marriage, and bio-ethics. (DH, ETH)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the philosophical basis of Western economic systems. Emphasis on the conception of man, the role of economics in social life, and the vision of society from Adam Smith to the present. (Cross-list ECON 325) (DS)
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Study of the nineteenth and twentieth century thematic explorations of human consequences, freedom, choice, death, and the precarious and often baffling nature of human existence, as expressed in philosophy, literature, and film. (Cross-list ENG 401). (DH)
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