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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. The study of post-modern interpreters of Plato's dia- logues. The course centers around Catherine Zuckert's book, Postmodern Platos and treats such interpreters as Nietzsche, Strauss, Gadamer, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Discussion of the foundations of modern thought: the turn towards human interest and to language, the reassessment of the classical heritage, and the crisis of Christianity. Renaissance philosophy shows current issues of philosophy in the making. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Students are introduced to some of the major themes and figures of philosophical thought in Japan. The focus is on traditional thought, such as that of the Zen Bud- dhist philosopher Dogen, and/or on modern thought, such as that of the Kyoto School.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An inquiry into the epistemological, moral, and meta- physical writings of Plato's middle and later periods, with special reference to the relation of Anamnesis, participation and the theory of forms in the middle dialogues to Koinonia and the theory of the greatest kinds in the later dialogues.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of the teachings contained in one of the most important of the Platonic dialogues. A close study of the dialogue and lectures treats the nature of justice, the quarrel between poetry and philosophy, relationship between philosophy and politics or theol- ogy, the character of the philosopher, the purposes of education, the doctrine of 'ideas', and the naturalityof political life.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of Aristotle as a systematic thinker with an in- tegrated view of the natural world, the goals of human life, and the formal properties of thought. Primary focus on selections from Aristotle's logical works and psychological treatises, together with his Physics, Meta- physics, Ethics, and Politics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. The philosophy of Saint Thomas represents the high point of medieval thought. Course focuses on the three notions that make up the 'dance of creation': the notionof God as a creator whose knowledge does not dis- tance itself from the world; the notion of the world as being created and, as such, perpetually unfinished; and the notion of the human soul as the site from which254 Philosophy the world responds to its creator. Counts toward Catho- lic Studies and Medieval Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. For 1,500 years, thinkers sought a single thing: a 'Con- cept of Being' to explain the sum of things. Reaches from Greek, Roman, Arabic, and Hebrew roots to the thirteenth century moment when all the Middle Ages stood side by side. Traces how the bad philosophical decisions made at that moment determined the even- tual collapse of Medieval philosophy into the sterile scholasticism and anti-Catholic Scientific Revolution. Counts toward Catholic Studies and Medieval Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of the doctrines of René Descartes through the study of his works, The Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy with some reference to Rules for the Direction of the Mind and Passions of the Soul. Lectures address the centrality of Descartes's teaching to the modern program, mathematical certi- tude, the relation between reason and passion, philo- sophic method, metaphysical neutrality, and the project of 'mastery and possession of nature'.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of the foundations of the philosophic teaching of Baruch Spinoza, principally through the reading of his Tractatus theologico-politicus. An examination of rev- elation, miracles, divine and human law, philosophic communication, natural right, obedience, and the theologico-political problem.
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