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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey of philosophical, scientific, and religious conceptions of the human being, from past and present and from various cultures. Issues include meaning of life, destiny of humanity, relations between humans, human development and evolution, relations of humans to their creator/origins and to their environments, and methodologies for investigating human nature. Part of the Identity Issue. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Environmental justice addresses environmental racism, inequity, and the broad disparities in how environmental benefits and burdens are distributed across communities. This course will provide an overview of the historical, conceptual, and practical dimensions of the environmental justice movement, and of the critical social and political thought at its core. Cross-listed with ENS 302. Offered fall and winter semesters.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the origins of western thought from its earliest pre-socratic developments to the Hellenistic period, with central focus on the classical philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Focus will be on the philosophers' writings, but attention also will be given to context and tradition. Cross-listed with CLA 311. May be repeated for credit if content varies.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one or several great medieval philosophers, such as: Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Maimonides. The focus will be on the philosophers' writings, but attention will also be given to context and tradition. May be repeated for credit, if content differs.
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3.00 Credits
A study of early modern (17th/18th century) philosophy from Descartes to Kant, including early "Rationalist" and "Empiricist" philosophers. Focus will be on the philosophers' writings, but attention also will be given to context and tradition. May be repeated for credit, if content differs.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one or several later modern great philosophers beginning with Kant, such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx. Focus will be on the philosopher's writings, but attention will also be given to context and tradition. May be repeated, if content differs.
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3.00 Credits
A study of one or several recent great philosophers, such as James, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Dewey, Arendt, Merleau-Ponty, Peirce, Whitehead. Focus will be on the philosophers' writings, but attention also will be given to context and tradition. May be repeated, for credit if context varies.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the intellectual appropriation of the concept of freedom over time. Emphasis will be given to the dynamic interaction between freedom and social control in classics of Western philosophy from ancient times to modernity. Authors include Plato, Epicurus, Aristotle, Aurelius, Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Marx. Part of Human Rights Issue. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of ethical principles and practice in business, medicine, education, law, and government. This course aims to providing students with the intellectual framework for an ethical analysis of situations which arise within various professions. Also seeks to foster mutual understanding across professional lines. Part of the Human Rights Issue. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Laws create and preserve rights. We will explore the nature, formation, and interpretation of laws. What are they? Where do they come from? And how do we tell what they mean? We will also consider specific issues such as equality and affirmative action, and punishment and the death penalty. Part of the Human Rights Issue. Offered fall semester, even-numbered years. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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