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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A comparative and critical examination of classical philosophies of education and contemporary alternatives. Texts from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Dewey, and others.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of major issues and concepts in traditional and contemporary aesthetic theory, including the role of representation in art, the relation of art to morality, Marxist and Freudian theories of art, interpretation and aesthetic response, creativity in art. The course will also focus on specific art media, such as film, literature, and painting.
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4.00 Credits
This class studies some of the greatest ethical and meta-ethical theories in the Western tradition in greater detail. We will pay particular attention to how these thinkers construct their own theories and criticize each others'.
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4.00 Credits
A study of classical Greek and Roman philosophy. Readings in the pre- Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, giving attention to the influence of these thinkers in shaping the character of philosophy.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thinkers who shaped philosophy from the fourth to the 14th century. Questions regarding the nature of the will, philosophical method, the character of language and universals, and the chain of revelation. (241 is offered as the 3 credit version of this course).
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4.00 Credits
An examination of European philosophy from 1600-1800, including the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), the British Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume), and the critical philosophy of Kant.
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4.00 Credits
An overview of the development of German idealism from Kant to Hegel, the collapse of idealism in the post-Hegelian philosophy of Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of topics and issues in moral problems, drawn from one or more of the following: biomedical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, social ethics, sexual/gender ethics.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an exploration of the central concerns, issues, and theories of modern and contemporary feminisms, including the sex/gender distinction, essentialism, feminist critiques of knowledge and disciplines, ecological feminism, women's spirituality, feminist ethics, and the connections of feminism to issues of class, race, and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative-critical examination of contrasting and divergent views of human nature. Theories to be examined will include one or more of the following: Christianity, Buddhism, Evolutionary theory, Classical conceptions of humanity, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Existentialism, Feminism, non-Western and native culture conceptions of humanity.
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