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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours This course explores the moral standards, responsibilities, and duties of professionals, such as physicians, nurses, lawyers, social workers, teachers, administrators, public officers, accountants, and managers. We will examine the criteria for a profession as well as obligations of professionals toward their clients and toward third parties.We will explore some common philosophical theories of moral obligation, rights and justice and how they apply to cases. Prerequisites: Demonstrated research and writing skills; not recommended for first- and second-year students. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course is a study of the ethical principles that apply to business practices and goals. In addition to an examination of the moral theory and values behind a free market, this course examines a variety of issues such as employer/employee rights and responsibilities, privacy in the workplace, whistle blowing, corporate responsibilities, and advertising practices, all of which are examined in the light of alternative approaches to making moral judgments. Prerequisite: An introductory course in philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours A survey of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Aquinas, with special attention to Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas. Prerequisite: PHL1100. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course will study the main features of Western philosophy in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries with an emphasis on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Prerequisites: PHL1100; PHL3250 is helpful but not required.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours A survey of the various contemporary philosophical movements: logical positivism, pragmatism, process philosophy, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Prerequisites: PHL1100; some familiarity with the history of philosophy is helpful.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 semester hours This course is a study of how a variety of philosophical authors have defined both the good life and happiness and how they may be achieved. Topics in the course range from Socrates' question as to what life is worth living to the belief that the pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right. No prerequisites. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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4.00 Credits
2 or 4 semester hours This course is a study of the various philosophical issues that surround the topics of love and sex. The topic will include the philosophical, theological and contemporary influences that have shaped the public debates about love and sex; the ethical issues associated with these topics; and the social policy implications. Prerequisite: PHL1100 helpful but not required. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Arequirement.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This course will study the philosophers and movements in American philosophy from 1700 to the present, with special emphasis on Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, and Whitehead. Prerequisite: An introductory philosophy course.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Methodological, conceptual and substantive ideas of major political theorists, emphasizing primary sources and the contributions of Aristotle, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. Prerequisites: Demonstrated research and writing skills; two prior 3000-level courses in philosophy and/or political science required.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Methodological, conceptual and substantive ideas of major political theorists and movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing primary sources and the contributions of Bentham, Marx and Lenin, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Sartre, and contemporary approaches to the study of political science. Prerequisites: Demonstrated research and writing skills; two prior 3000-level courses in philosophy and/or political science required.
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