|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. What is the nature of evil What are its causes In what forms or guises has it appeared in human history How is our understanding of evil influenced and informed by concepts like fate, guilt, freedom, responsibility, prov- idence, God, and human nature itself This course explores such questions by drawing upon a variety of philosophical, religious, and literary sources in an attempt to better understand the all too common expe- rience of evil. Fulfills ethics core requirement.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of the basic principles and types of reasoning as they function in such fields as business, politics, law, and the natural and social sciences. Attention to the vari- ous ways in which language, argument, and persuasion can be used/misused.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. What are the unique challenges and opportunities for philosophy in an age of cross-cultural encounter Are there other methods and aims of philosophizing than those developed in the West How do cultural and lin- guistic differences affect the way we think Some of the fundamental issues involved in doing comparative philosophy are examined. Texts from both Western and Asian authors are used, including some from the Kyoto School of modern Japanese philosophy. Counts toward Asian Studies minor.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Materialism and science have, historically, prospered together since the Enlightenment, but science in itself neither denies nor endorses a materialistic ontology. One danger of modernity is to accept materialism uncrit- ically while at the same time allowing it to coexist with religious faith, unexamined. Students explore the issues that surround investing nature with a spiritual and sacred aspect yet not abandoning a scientific worldview. This course explores how these two outlooks are rooted in the history of Western thought, and how the two world- views might be seen to form a coherent understanding of the world. Same course as PH132.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of the 'big questions' of philosophythrough an historical survey of thinkers in the Western tradition. Topics include whether time and space have a beginning, the relationship of being to God, the prob- lem of finitude and eternity, death and nothingness, the human search for meaning, the foundations of truth.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. What does it mean to be of service to another This course explores the issues of social justice, community, the personal search for meaning, and the recognition of difference and mutuality which all come into play when we seek to serve.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An upper-level exploration of Asian philosophical and spiritual traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confu- cianism, and Taoism. One or more may be the focus of a given course. Counts toward Asian Studies minor. PL326 Philosophy of Religion (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of phenomenological descriptions of religion, and a discussion of the possibility of metaphysi- cal statements about God. Topics include contemporary problems of God-talk, secularization, the relationship between philosophy and theology.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. What is language itself How have different philosophers answered the question of the nature of language and our relation to it Theories of language from antiquity250 Philosophy to the present are examined. Readings include works from, among others, Plato, Hobbes, Wittgenstein, Saus- sure, Jakobson, Lacan, and Derrida.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Investigates the human body as a philosophical theme. Contrasts Descartes' vision of the mechanical body with contemporary alternative views. Discusses how bodily experience is shaped by culture, for example, in the con- text of medicine, sports, labor, punishment, and sexuality.
-
3.00 Credits
of Catholic Social Thought (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A survey of the philosophical foundations and devel- opment of Catholic social thought. The survey begins with a study of ancient and medieval sources which is followed by an analysis of important nineteenth and twentieth century Catholic statements on questions of economics, politics, society, and culture in conjunction with significant traditions of the period-Catholic and non-Catholic-such as Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, neo-scholasticism, and contemporary views of the nature of person and community. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|