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3.00 Credits
3 Credits An examination of the place of humanity in the natural world and implications for ethics of this place. Topics include the environmental crisis and the need for a new environmental ethic, the ethical dimensions of environmental policy issues, human-centered ethics, obligations to future generations, the intrinsic value of the natural world, animal rights, wilderness, and the preservation of species.
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3 Credits Late-twentieth century art has insistently challenged us to develop a clear understanding of the very nature of the artwork. This course is a survey of the major theories of the nature of art, with special emphasis on the views that art is a representation or imitation of reality, that art is inherently the expression of emotion, that art is a special kind of symbolic form. We will also address questions such as the role of art history in a theory of aesthetic interpretation and in the constitution of the artwork, the problem of forgery, the issue of artistic responsibility and recent debates over censorship of the arts.
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An inquiry into the broad philosophical movement of existentialism, through a reading of major existentialist thinkers including Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Marcel, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Heidegger, and some post-modern thinkers including various literary and artistic sources. Topics to be considered may include: - Existence*The Phenomenological method* authentic vs inauthentic existence*subjective vs objective knowing* alienation and self-deception* being-towards-death* technology and mass society* Existential psychotherapy* The Holocaust and existential meaning* gender and significance* Existentialism and the beat generation* post-modernism and deconstruction* Education and existence*- Art and existence
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3.00 Credits
Philosophy and Feminism
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course explores fundamental questions concerning the nature of law and the relation between law and justice. It examines questions concerning the source of the obligation to obey law, the limits of the obligation to law, and the moral conditions that make law possible. This exploration leads to an examination such of different judicial philosophies of constitutional interpretation as original intent, judicial restraint, and judicial activism. The course continues with a study of some perplexing questions about the meaning of equality and justice as they arise in legal cases dealing with race and/or gender. It examines various philosophies of punishment and questions notions of crime and harm as well as contract and agreement.It concludes with an investigation of the moral basis of international law by way of a critical analysis of the Nuremberg Trial and with an exploration of the basis for justice in reconciliation by way of a critical analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course examines the philosophical traditions of Asia, in particular, Confucian, Taoist, Hindu, and Buddhist philosophies. We will pay particular attention to their views on values, the nature of reality, and the nature of the self. For the first half of the semester, we will focus on the classical Chinese texts of Confucius, Mencious, Laotzu, and Chuang-tzu, exploring their ideas of human virtues, values, good life, human nature, and ultimate reality. For the second half, we will explore the concepts of Hinduism and Buddhism as they developed in India (as well as in China and Japan in the case of Buddhism), such as the concepts of the self, the mind, emptiness, and reality.
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3.00 Credits
Feminist Ethics
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits In this course we shall read one or two major medieval Christian philosophers (e.g. Augustine and Aquinas), one or two major medieval Muslim philosophers (e.g. al-Ghazali and ibn Rushd (Averroes), & one or two major medieval Jewish philosophers (e.g., Saadia & Maimonides). The themes upon which we shall focus will include some or all of the following: God's existence, God's nature, God's justice, the creation of hte universe, the priority of reason versus faith, the literal versus metaphorical nature of religious language, & the soul's immortalit
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course will offer an introduction to the works of some of the principal philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. We will read, interpret, and examine the writings of Descartes Locke, Hume, and Kant. We will pay particular attention to their metaphysical views on the existence and nature of matter, mind, God, and freedom, and to their epistemological views on the scope and limits of human knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Knowledge - its nature, forms, methods, scope, and validation. What are the relations of knowledge and justification to sense experience For example, does knowledge of our surroundings rest upon a foundation of sense experience Is knowledge of the so-called truths of reason in some way independent of evidence provided by sense experience How is a body of knowledge related to an individual knower Does the justification of one's beliefs depend upon what psychology reveals about the reliability of methods for acquiring the beliefs Readings from contemporary sources.
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