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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on a variety of issues that come about as a result of the interaction between medicine and modern technological advances. Biotechnologies span issues of health from birth until death, including ethical debates concerning: cloning, genetic screening, invitro fertilization, and physician assisted suicide, to name a few. Bioethics quite clearly encompasses the entire life course. Issues or topics that may be investigated include: justice and autonomy in health care; life and death; biomedical research and tecnology; and public health, among others.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on ethical issues related to our natural environment. it is a truism that all persons live, work and play within the confines and richness of the natural environment. For this reason there is simply no separating the natural environment and its ethical status from the well-being of people. Further, our present ethical relationship with our natural environment is uniquely important as it has the strong potential to impact those living now but it also impacts human beings that will live in fifty or even five-hundred years. Issues and topics that may be investigated include: Who counts in environmental ethics: anaimals, plants, ecosystems; Is nature intrinsically valuable; frameworks of environmental ethics; sustaining, restoring and preserving nature; and the enviornment and social justice including intergenerational justice, among others.
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3.00 Credits
In the 6th century B.C.E., six major sources of wisdom arose: Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Isaiah, Zoroaster and the pre-Socratic Greek Philosophers. Understanding the classic questions and the answers given by these sages to the timeless issues of who we are, how we should live, what is real, and how we come to know will help us understand the roots of many other thinkers throughout the history of the world as well as offering sound advice on how to live our own lives. Each thinker will be considered in their historical context. Cross listed with HI305.
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3.00 Credits
A contemporary philosopher said, ?All of philosophy is a footnote to Plato.? Certainly Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics are the keys to understanding much of the intellectual roots of the Western tradition. We will read the major texts of these philosophers in their historical context as they attempt to answer the questions, Who am I? What is my role in society? What is a well-run state? What is real? And how should I live? Cross-listed with HI305.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will examine the attempts by modern philosophy to answer two central questions. The first is the epistemological question of what human beings can know. In particular, we will examine the issue of whether human beings can justifiably claim to know that there is a mind-independent external world. The second central question with which modern philosophy struggles is the metaphysical question concerning the place of consciousness (mind) in a material universe. What is the relation between mind and matter, between mind and body? Is the mind distinct from the body? Or is the mind identical to the body? What is the self? Readings may include Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant with attention to their historical context. Cross-listed with HI 305.
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In this course, we will examine some of the most influential philosophical movements in the contemporary period. The contemporary world of philosophy continues to focus on the epistemological and metaphysical questions placed at the center of philosophical thought during the modern period. In addition, contemporary philosophy pays special attention to the role that language plays in our understanding of the world around us. Movements to be examined include phenomenology/existentialism, logical positivism, and philosophy of language. Readings may include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Ayer, Quine, and Kripke with attention to their historical context. Cross-listed with HI 305.
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