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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will take an in-depth focus on the major theoretical approaches to ethics. The course will begin with a review of the historical origins of moral theory (Aristotle, Kant, and Mill). During the second part of the class, we will examine several attempts to rearticulate virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarianism to address contemporary concerns. This course is intended as an advanced course in moral theory and is not a replacement for PHI 2040. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 1000 or 2040.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and others. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 1000 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 1000 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major attempts to answer the fundamental questions about the self, the nature of reality, God, perception, and belief. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 1000 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the issues that lie at the intersection of moral theory, political philosophy, and legal philosophy, the course will address several issues of particular interest to all three fields, among them punishment, freedom of speech, and the nature of political obligation. Analysis will be filtered through a careful reading of several important contemporary works in moral, political, and legal philosophy. The course assumes some background in at least one of the three areas being studied. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 2040.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the problems and implications of the mathematical, physical, biological, and social sciences leading to philosophical synthesis of the relation between the sciences and humans. Credit, 3 semester hours. PREREQ: PHI 1000 or instructor consent.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of issues between science and religion and a consideration of a tradition in natural theology used to validate religious claims. Credit, 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of religion, the problems connected with belief and knowledge, faith and reason, the character and meanings of religious commitment. Credit, 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the major ethical issues raised by recent medical developments, such as: abortion, psychosurgery, organ transplants, euthanasia, human experimentation and health care. Credit, 3 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
A study of phenomenology, existentialism, post modernism, logical positivism, ordinary language philosophy, and conceptual analysis. Credit, 3 semester hours.
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