|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. The history and problems of education are approached from a philosophical perspective. What is teaching What is learning What is the purpose of education These are central questions in this course. This historical context (Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Dewey) help to illu- minate contemporary controversies.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Explores the notoriously rocky relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis in order to acquaint stu- dents with two important traditions of contemporary theory and to pose questions about theory in general- how theories arise and evolve, how they are shaped by politics, and how they succeed or fail to describe concrete realities. Readings from Freud, de Beauvoir, Steinem, Millet, Gilligan, Paglia, Dinnerstein, and others. Counts toward Gender Studies minor.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Examines the nature of light and how the attempt to understand it has forced physics and philosophy to rethink space, time, and the human place in the uni- verse. In this collaborative effort between physics and philosophy, the physical and figurative interpretations of these concepts are studied.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of the nature, aims, and possibility of peace. Students read what philosophers have had to say about peace and war from ancient to contemporary times. Some of the issues examined include just war theory, conscientious objection, non-violent protest, and the current Iraq war. In general, the course asks the ques- tion of whether humans are condemned to eternal war or can hope-as Kant did-for perpetual peace.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Modernity is held to begin with the discovery of the natural sciences, that nature is an object to be mastered or controlled. Here are examined the moral and mechanical doctrines of Niccolò Machiavelli and Francis Bacon which serve as the foundations for the modern philosophic program.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL 200-level course. Examines the philosophical practice of esotericism, or the habit of secret teaching, in ancient and modern forms. Pertinent themes include noble lying, accommo- dation, protection from harm and social responsibility, philosophical communication of 'dangerous' truths,and exoteric/esoteric literature. Figures considered include Plato, Aristotle, Maimonides, Galileo, Machia- velli, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Toland, and others.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. The topics of peace and war in Jesuit drama, Renais- sance humanist culture, Jesuit education and ethics, and war theory are explored using texts by sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits and their contemporaries. This interdisciplinary seminar uses original research252 Philosophy by Loyola undergraduates (namely, the first English trans- lation of a Jesuit Latin play), and students contribute to a volume in Loyola's Aperio series on the play and its themes. Students also prepare a public performance of this play, reviving an educational tool long used in the Jesuit tradition. The course will interest students in classics, philosophy, Catholic Studies, and theatre, along with those curious about the history of Jesuit education and ideas concerning war and peace. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor. Same course as CL349.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Examines the relationship between ethics and fundamen- tal conceptions in philosophical anthropology. Sexual ethics are discussed in terms of desire, concupiscence, ecstasy, rationality, and norms. While a variety of view- points are discussed, the course concentrates on read- ings from within the Catholic tradition. For this reason, the course is interdisciplinary, taking in moral theory, philosophy, theology, literature, and art. Does not fulfill ethics core requirement. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An advanced course for students who want to continue their thinking about moral theory. Virtue theory is a school of ethical reflection associated with Aristotle and Aquinas. This course asks why Aquinas thought Aristotle's account of the virtues insufficient. Aquinas'approach has been much criticized by moral theolo- gians. Careful consideration is given to these criticisms as well as how Aquinas might reply. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. While not forgetting the principles of political philoso- phy laid down by Saints Augustine and Aquinas, this class discusses the work of recent Catholic political philoso- phers. The central topic is whether or not Catholicism is compatible with liberal democracy. Amongst think- ers to be discussed are Aurel Kolnai, Pierre Manent, John Paul II, and the Jesuits, Gaston Fessard and John Courtney Murray. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|