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3.00 Credits
Description: A close examination of the principal works of the major philosophical theorist of society in late industrial capitalism. Included in this study are the critical differences between Habermas and French poststructuralist theory. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A study of Levinas' principal works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, emphasizing such issues as ethics as first philosophy, the question of the other, sensibility, substitution, and responsibility; the influence of Levinas on Derrida and Lyotard and the question of postmodernism and ethics; Levinas' critique of Heidegger. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A study of Derrida's principal writings, from the early work on Husserl to the present treating such issues as: the idea of deconstruction, difference, trace, arch-writing, textuality, the signature, literature, the gift, the quasitranscendental, the ethical and political implications of deconstruction; relationship to Heidegger. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A close study from Foucault's principal texts and interviews of some combination of the following themes: archaeology, genealogy, taxonomy, transgression, voices from the outside, the author, the death of man, power, discipline, cart- ography, panoptocism, the archive, the event series, the limit experience, the aesthetics of existence. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A comparison and contrast of various theoretical approaches to healthcare ethics. Issues include healthcare rationing, human beginnings, death with dignity, refusing medical interventions, and professional-patient/client interactions. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: Consideration of the various and often competing epistemological/aesthetic approaches that ground the non- moral judgements about what is healthy or diseased, what is normal or abnormal, what is beautiful or disfigured, and what is a good quality of life. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: Foundationalist and anti-foundationalist versions of moral enquiry will be contrasted and compared, and other problems of metaethics will be discussed. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A survey of major political theories from works such as Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's The Prince, Hobbes' Leviathan, Rousseau's Discourses, Hegel's Philosophy of Right, and Rawls' Theory of Justice with some consideration of such contemporary post-Hegelian thinkers as Kojeve and Fukayama who maintain that political philosophy has come to an end. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A study of the historical development of liberalism from Hobbes to contemporary liberal theory with careful attention to the critique of liberalism mounted by contemporary communitarian theory, especially the theories of Alistair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and William Gladstone. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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Description: A study of the historical development of critical theory in the Frankfurt School, from its inception in Kantian philosophy to its present formation in the work of Jurgen Habermas. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate Arts and Sciences
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