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3.00 Credits
This course is a historical survey of existentialism, a modern-day philosophy of human freedom and responsibility. In particular, we shall focus on the thought of four existential philosophers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Heidegger. We shall supplement our study of existential philosophy with discussion of existential novels by Camus, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. In exploring the thought of the existentialists, we shall address such questions as: What is authentic human existence? Is God dead? Is there any ground for ethical judgments? Are human beings free? How should one face death?
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Eastern philosophy. The topics addressed may include: ethics, death, reality, self, and knowledge. The schools of Eastern philosophy studied may include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. In studying Eastern, philosophy students will be exposed to, and learn appreciation for, different perspectives on traditional philosophical issues. Students will develop and refine their ability to offer criticism of philosophical positions and will develop the ability to form their own educated views on philosophical issues. Cross-listed as PHIL 176.
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3.00 Credits
The principal aim of logic is to develop a system of methods and principles that may be used as criteria for evaluating the arguments of others and as guides in constructing arguments of one's own. This course emphasizes formal logic, particularly categorical and propositional logic. Prerequisite: CORE 280
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3.00 Credits
This course explores fundamental questions about the moral life and its relation to meaning and human fulfillment. Those questions include: How do we determine which actions are morally right? What kind of person should we become? If we do choose to commit to living a moral life, is this likely to inhibit or to enhance our well-being? This course will examine answers given by historically influential thinkers and consider how their answers apply to contemporary moral issues. Cross-listed as PHIL 173.
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3.00 Credits
This course poses and responds to the following critical inquiries: Where do we look for goodness in a collapsing civilization? How can we live well when vice is rewarded? Why are we drawn to the chaos of tyranny instead of the order of law? Can we find anything substantial remaining in a world of virtual reality? What can we know at this moment when falsity awaits us at every turn? These are human questions. These are ancient questions. These are the questions of the first great Western philosopher and the themes of his most famous dialogue. It is a story of lust and love, a struggle between force and persuasion, an account of traitors and citizens, a drama of laughter and sadness, an effort of destruction and creation, and a movement from fantasy to truth. These are the topics of the only book we will read in this class, a work as timeless as it is timely-these are the subjects of Plato's Republic. Cross-listed as PHIL 185.
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3.00 Credits
It has been proposed that bioethics is what angels - disembodied and immortal - would not have. More precisely, bioethics concerns issues and problems that arise in virtue of the bodily nature we human beings have: issues and problems around conception and birth, health and sickness, aging, dying, and the research we conduct and the technologies we have developed to ameliorate and enhance the human condition. Like bioethics itself, this course is concerned with moral theory as well as practice. Possible topics include the appropriate "ends" of heath care, the provision of health care, and the many controversies over different healthcare practices and procedures. Cross-listed as PHIL 174.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar which considers current issues in ethics and values with particular emphasis on how they relate to public and professional life. Cross-listed as THEO 470.
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3.00 Credits
As the study of the nature of reality, this course begins by exploring questions about the nature of ourselves. What is a person, and what is the relationship between a person's mind and brain? Do persons have souls? Free will? Could there be an afterlife? It then turns to questions about the nature of reality. What is the nature of the universe? What does quantum mechanics say about the nature of matter? Are space and time exist as substances? What does it mean for something to exist, anyway? Could things exist outside our universe-like a supreme being, abstract objects, or other worlds? Might we even be living in a computer simulation? The metaphysician explores these questions and more in an attempt to understand the true nature of reality.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to epistemology. Topics include: What is knowledge? How do we know? What is the role of experience in knowing and what is the role of pure reasoning? When is a belief rationally justified or warranted? Can we know anything? In this course, we address these questions from both a historical and a contemporary perspective.
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