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3.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. This course attempts to address the question "Does thinking about the meaning of one's life help us live better?" by studying a particular issue and some thought-provoking responses to it. The particular issue and texts will vary from year to year. Not open to juniors and seniors without instructor's permission.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Intensive readings in primary texts crucial to the Western tradition. Students will read from such authors as Homer, the Bible, the Greek dramatists, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Freud, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. An introductory course in the principles and methods used to distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. This course aims to help students think and read critically and to write argumentative papers. Both inductive and deductive logic will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 3 semester hours. This course provides an investigation of one specific genre of Biblical literature. Students have recently studied Biblical narrative, Gospels, the Psalms and Paul.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. This course introduces students to some great primary philosophical texts of the Western tradition, such as Plato's Republic, and provides them with an overview of philosophy during this early period of its development.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. Students examine a study of major philosophers, ideas, and movements in philosophy from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. This course is a continuation of Greek and Early Christian Philosophy and will be similarly designed to promote a study of primary texts from Descartes, Hume, Kant, and others, as well as to present an overview of the period from secondary sources.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course explores the central principles of the Catholic religion. From year to year the course focuses on a different aspect of Catholicism. Topics covered might include the creation of basic beliefs in the first three centuries, issues in modern Catholic thinking, Catholics and the Bible, a history of the Church, or great figures in Catholicism.
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3.00 Credits
Every three years. 3 semester hours. Students will look at both Biblical sources and modern literary and theological interpretations to answer the question "Who was, or is, Jesus?" Questions to be addressed include the quest for the "historical Jesus," classical and contemporary christology, and hermeneutics of Biblical texts.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This course examines the central religious principles and ideas of major non-Christian religions. From year to year, the focus may be on different religions or areas of the world.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester, alternate years. 3 semester hours. A study relating ethics, as traditionally conceived in philosophy, to one or more current philosophical works in ethics. This course will provide students with a solid background in ethics from Plato to Nietzsche. A discussion of a contemporary work in ethics will introduce students to topics that may be covered in depth in later seminars.
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