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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Evaluates the trends in American philosophy, including the major writings of the Transcendentalists and the Pragmatists.
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3.00 Credits
Inquires into and evaluates major ethical problems faced by the business person. Includes conflicts between personal, professional, and larger social values and the difficulties of doing business in a culture where the values are different from the individual person.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers different questions about the nature of moral "right" and "wrong" such as whethics are, the importance of moral character, the nature of justice and virtue, and how the good of the individual compares to the good of society. Different conceptions of the human person in relation to certain ethical theories such as virtue ethics, Natural Law, utilitarianism, and relativism may be discussed. The connection of these ethical theories to historical thinkers such as Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant, and Mill may also be addressed. Finally, the class may consider the application of these theories to contemporary moral issues such as abortion, euthanasia, war, environmental concerns, capital punishment, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the nature of reality from a historical perspective through selected readings from classical thinkers of East and West, Medieval Jewish, Muslim, and Christian sources, and modern and contemporary critiques. Theoretical and practical implications of such systems on our view of nature, self, society, and the issue of evil receive special attention.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers different philosophical accounts of how the mind, senses, the physical world, and perhaps even culture interact in the experience of "knowing." Questions such as"What is knowledge?" "How do we know thawe know something?" and the difference between belief, knowledge, and opinion will be addressed. The class will consider this question both from the perspective of different epistemological theories (e.g. rationalism and empiricism), as well from the standpoint of different individual philosophers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, and others), as well as from one or more historical periods (e.g., ancient Greece, medieval Scholastic period, 17? C18th century Enlightenment, 20th century, and so on).
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to the major philosophical responses to God. Topics include the nature of religious experience, the use of reason in questions of God's existence, the problems of language about God, and the problems of God and evil.
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3.00 Credits
Inquires into the classic positions on the philosophy of law and the specific relationship to morality. It also considers questions relating to the structure of society and justice.
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3.00 Credits
Inquires into the philosophical bases of psychology and the social sciences and current controversial questions in the field.
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3.00 Credits
What are the limits of the scientific method? How far can the scientific model be used as a model of proof in other areas? What are the conceptual foundations of competing theories of natural science? Is physics "more" of a sciencethan biology?
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the philosophical questions: of What is beauty? Are there universal aesthetic standards? What are the connections of Art to truth? These questions are explored in light of the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and various contemporary writers.
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