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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of philosophy from Descartes through rationalism and empiricism, to Kant and into the 19th century.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the philosophical dimensions of religion, such as the nature of religious language, the relation between reason and revelation, and the nature and existence of God.
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3.00 Credits
A critical study of the major theories and concepts of political and social thought in the western heritage from Plato to the present.
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of the critical study of the major theories and concepts of political and social thought in the western heritage from Plato to the present.
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3.00 Credits
This variable topics course examines the relationship of philosophy and the arts. It will begin with general questions in aesthetics, looking at both traditional and contemporary thinkers. It will then examine specific periods or styles from the history of the arts about which aesthetic theory can aid critical reflection. Themes may include, for example: Ancient Greece, German Romanticism, French Medieval Art, Renaissance Italy, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art. This course may be taken more than once where the topic is different.
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3.00 Credits
This variable topics course examines the relationship of philosophy and the arts. It will begin with general questions in aesthetics, looking at both traditional and contemporary thinkers. It will then examine specific periods or styles from the history of the arts about which aesthetic theory can aid critical reflection. Themes may include, for example: Ancient Greece, German Romanticism, French Medieval Art, Renaissance Italy, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art. This course may be taken more than once where the topic is different. PHL 3134 will involve foreign travel.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this cultural foundations of education course is to link the liberal arts to education. The course will focus on writings of the major philosophers of education, including but not limited to Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Aquinas, Dewey, Counts, and Freire. An emphasis will be placed on the schools approach, where applicable, to the study of philosophy by examining the educational implications of metaphysics, epistemology and axiology in each of the schools of philosophy, including Idealism, Realism, Thomism, Confucianism, Pragmatism, Social Reconstructionism, Existentialism, and Post- Modernism.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines representative selections of readings from current political philosophy, including the following: John Rawls, R and A Dworkin, H. Arendt, R. Lakoff, M. Nussbaum, R. Nozick, M. Sandel, B. Berry, J. Derrida, M. Foucault, A. Naess, P. Singer, M. Walzer, and C. Taylor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to examine, in some detail, selected 19th century thinkers, movements, and topics, prominent after Kant, including the German Idealists, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to continue the historical course of study in PHL 3013 and PHL 3023 and will examine, in some detail, selected thinkers, movements, and topics, important in the 20th century. Representatives of the so-called analytic tradition such as Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Lewis, Ryle and Quine will be studied.
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