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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Satisfi es values, but not core elective requirements. (See Philosophy Department for course description.)
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the justice system from the ethical point of view: the human treatment of human beings. It is concerned with such matters as police procedures, the conduct of trials, operations of correctional institutions, and how they might justly achieve their ends.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the origins and development of modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant. Readings include Descartes' Meditations, Hume' s EnquiryConcerning Human Understanding, and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Topics include knowledge, certainty and skepticism; the nature of the human mind, morality, and the existence of God.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation into Plato's theory of law, his conception of justice, and the ideal of American democracy. Attention will be given to the moral assumptions underlying these three areas of investigation.
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3.00 Credits
Friedrich Nietzsche is the most brilliant and influential philosopher and theologian of the past two centuries. He fearlessly challenged the foundations of traditional morality and a certain debilitating form of Christianity.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of Christian medieval philosophy from the Patristic period to the fourteenth century, including Augustine, J.S. Erigena, Abelard, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Ockham. Emphasis on the development of a medieval Christian world-view.
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3.00 Credits
The historical and cultural origins of America as related to the genesis of the American philosophy of experience. Particular emphasis placed on the origin and structure of moral and religious values as they are found in the thought of William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Charles Sanders Pierce, etc.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the charge that technology is ideology. An analysis of the problems created for human values by the fact that humans are increasingly understood in terms of, and human relations are more and more mediated by, machines. An evaluation of arguments for and against technological development.
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3.00 Credits
During the past century the areas of phenomenology and existentialism have dominated much of continental European Philosophy. This course will cover some of the major thinkers in that category, including Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre, Foucault and Derrida.
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3.00 Credits
Existential values as mirrored in selected texts including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Jaspers, and Camus.
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