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3.00 Credits
Nineteenth century thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Nietzsche explored values as they are shaped in history and within the spheres of ethical and social life, economics, and politics. Key topics and themes, including the interpretation of modernity, liberalism, and utilitarianism are examined.
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries arose the major philosophical movement called German Idealism. Against the background of Kantian philosophy, the legacy of the Enlightenment, and Romanticism, the contributions of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and other signifi cant major fi gures of German Idealism are studied.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical investigation of the nature and existence of God, including the problem of evil, the relationship between faith and reason, and the relationship between God and the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate some ancient and modern theories that offer explanations for the nature, meaning, and purpose of human beings.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the various approaches to ethical thinking: natural law theory, Kantian deontology, utilitarian consequentialism, and modern rights theory. These general normative theories will then be applied to contemporary moral issues.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical investigation of both analytic and normative jurisprudence. An examination of the debate between "higher law" theory and legal positivism,the nature of law, the relationship between law and morals, theories of rights, constitutionalism, crime and punishment, law and economics.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical investigation of the person's relationship to the state and civil society. An analysis of the concepts of law, rights, justice, political obligation and authority, civil disobedience, anarchism and revolution.
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3.00 Credits
Conscience is a matter of right reason. This course explores the correct thinking that is necessary in order to form a sound, conscientious judgment concerning matters of personal and/or social morality.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical investigation of what constitutes a fair distribution of benefi ts and burdens, rights and duties, within a truly just society. Discussion of historical and contemporary theories of justice and individual rights.
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical analysis of contemporary issues in bioethics, including such topics as abortion, euthanasia, the doctorpatient relationship, genetics, cloning, reproductive technologies, and the allocation of scarce medical resources.
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