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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of philosophical themes found in great works of literature. Among the authors studied are Aristophanes, Dante, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Melville, Faulkner, and Solzhenitsyn.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of selected classical and contemporary theories of justice, including, among others, those of Plato, Mill, Rawl, Nozick. Includes discussion of present-day applications with an emphasis on national and international issues.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of the power, the danger, the beauty, and the mystery of love. A natural extension of a course in ethics, the course encourages further development of the overall moral dimension of students. Major attention is given to Aristotle, Cicero, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Lewis.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major medieval philosophy through such thinkers as Augustine, Anselm, Maimonides, Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Duns Scotus, and El Farabi.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major modern philosophy through thinkers such as Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Locke, Newton, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation into the nature, method, significance and limits of scientific knowledge. Major attention is given to such thinkers as the Presocratics, Aristotle, Zeno, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Planck, Einstein, Weber, and Kuhn.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation into the different views of the nature and value of the modes of knowledge, including an attempt to formulate an adequate critical theory.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the existentialist thinkers, with a focus on issues such as the meaning of existence, anxiety, individuality, authenticity, suicide, and death. Major attention will be given to such philosophers as Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Camus, Sartre, Weil, and Marcel.
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3.00 Credits
A textual study and discussion of several major works in ethical theory. Major attention to be given to the Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle); Treatise on Law (Thomas Aquinas); Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hume); Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant); Utilitarianism (Mill). Prerequisite: PHL 230.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of major philosophical works and ideas of prominent 19th and 20th Christian thinkers. Major attention is given to philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Newman, Maritain, Gilson, Pieper, Marcel, Lewis, and Chesterton.
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