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3.00 Credits
Description: Overview of the major areas of philosophic inquiry including the nature of reality, of the human self, of moral value, and of knowledge of God's existence. Notes: Offered every semester.
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Description: Overview of the major areas of philosophic inquiry including the nature of reality, of the human self, of moral value, and of knowledge of God's existence. Notes: Offered every semester.
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Description: Introduction to classical and contemporary logic with special emphasis upon the nature of language used in reasoning and argumentation. Notes: Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Hate-speech, sex, and terrorism are some of the interesting topics we explore as we evaluate the moral standards of Western society. Others might include abortion, human cloning, animal rights, drug legalization, world hunger, or capital punishment. This introduction to practical ethics introduces a few primary ethical theories in order to better appreciate the justifications offered in our readings. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy and thought. This course examines major philosophers from this seminal period, including Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and possibly later figures as well. Central topics include the ultimate nature of reality, our capacity for knowledge, morality, social justice, the good life. Notes: Offered in fall.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course examines the emergence of modern philosophical thought from its ancient and medieval origins, focusing on a selection of the principal philosophers of the modern era such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. A primary theme of the course is the notion of the modern subject and its relation to the world. Notes: Offered in spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course examines the emergence of modern philosophical thought from its ancient and medieval origins, focusing on a selection of the principal philosophers of the modern era such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. A primary theme of the course is the notion of the modern subject and its relation to the world. Notes: Offered in spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Introduction to the thought of the major existentialist thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Tillich, Sartre and Camus. Notes: Offered variable times.
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Description: This course examines theories of knowledge as they concern what exactly knowledge is, the fundamental forms that knowledge may take, and the significance of knowledge for human life. This study is relevant to the basic methodology of all truth-seeking disciplines, including the empirical and social sciences. Notes: Usually offered alternate spring semesters. Prerequisites: HMXP 102.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course examines the fundamental nature of reality and our intellectual access to it. Specific topics may include existence, physical and mental entities, causation, space and time as well as knowledge, logic, conception, perception, and sensation. Prerequisites: HMXP 102.
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