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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Rein Staal,Professor of Political Science The Confessions and The City of God considered in the context of Augustine's philosophical and religious inheritance, both pagan (Plato, Cicero, and Plotinus) and Christian (Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome). Students will ask why Augustine's views of God, human nature and destiny have exerted such a powerful attraction through the ages.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Milton Horne,Professor of Religion This tutorial concerns the book of Job's enduring and often interpreted perspectives upon the nature of God, humankind, and their complex relationship to each other, especially as that relationship is complicated by the suffering of humankind. The book of Job is examined from the perspectives of two major historical epochs, pre-modern and modern. In the pre-modern periods, essays address ancient Near Eastern,Biblical,Hellenistic Jewish and Early Christian, and Medieval Jewish and Christian perspectives. In the modern periods, essays address Historicocritical, and literary interpretations of the book. The primary texts the tutorial treats in this tutorial include The Sumerian Job; The Babylonian Job; Biblical Job; The Testament of Job; Targum Job; and J.B.( MacLeish)
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Kenneth Alpern,Oxbridge Senior Tutor and Professor of Philosophy This course is a concentrated examination of the ethics of Aristotle primarily through his Nicomachean Ethics, but also considering selected passages from his Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics,De Anima, Rhetoric, and Politics. Topics include the good, human flourishing, moral and intellectual virtues, moral psychology, moral education, akrasia, and friendship. Emphasis will be on Aristotle's conception of moral character.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: John Westlie, Professor of French,Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College A careful reading of The Divine Comedy in the context of its classical antecedents (Virgil's Aeneid) and contemporary literary and philosophical trends. Students read selections from the love poetry of the dolce stil nuovo and Thomas Aquinas as well as Dante's Vita nuova and selections from his political writings.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Randall Morris,Professor of Philosophy An examination of the key works by Hobbes to understand how developments in epistemology, especially the emergence of the scientific method, influenced his views on human nature, society, politics, and religion.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Staff In this tutorial, students are introduced to questions concerning the relationships that exist between religion and the public sphere. The works of Reinhold Niebuhr, H.R. Niebuhr and Paul Tillich are examined in the context of the social and historical movements of the 20th Century. The writings of Peter Hodgson, a theologian working in the 21st Century, provide students with a current perspective and offer a point of comparison and contrast with earlier thinkers. Students will also focus on how individual theologians have addressed the questions concerning God and humanity by exploring the dilemma of faith. By focusing on faith, it is possible to explore how theologians attempt to define God and define humanity.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Randall Morris,Professor of Philosophy Introduces students to some of the central ideas of Marx's philosophy: human nature, alienation, freedom, ideology, historical materialism, and the critique of capitalism.The focus is on the writings of the early, humanistic Marx, although students will also examine some of the ways in which Marx's ideas developed, especially with regard to his ideas on justice and morality.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor:Rein Staal,Professor of Political Science A study of American thought in the latter half of the 18th century, with emphasis on the fusion of the political and philosophical in the same individuals, who were at once statesmen and thinkers. American texts are placed in the context of European ones both to identify influences and to establish contrasts.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Tutor: Elaine Reynolds,Professor of History This course surveys the main figures, ideas, and developments in early modern Europe that are collectively known as the Enlightenment. The period stretches from the mid-seventeenth century up to the world of the French Revolution and the early nineteenth century. Topics include the growth of development of rationalism and empiricism; the connection between science and the Enlightenment, the development of liberalism in politics and economics, the cultural life of eighteenth-century intellectuals, and the scholarly debates that continue to today about the Enlightenment and its legacy. Some of the major figures studied include John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, David Hume, J.J. Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Tutor: Elizabeth Sperry,Professor of Philosophy This tutorial will provide students with the opportunity to study dominant trends in feminism and postmodernism,to review and synthesize what they have learned in earlier tutorials concerning classical western answers to the fundamental questions on which the History of Ideas major is based, and to consider from a new perspective the conceptual frameworks that have made possible those classical answers.
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