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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
1 supplemental education unit Designed for students new to education, this seminar is a small-group experience that serves as an orientation to the program. Concerns about preparing to be a professional as well as academic and personal development are considered in one-hour weekly sessions. The one supplemental education unit does not count toward graduation; grading is on a pass/fail (Y/Z) basis.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The beginnings of Western scientific and humanistic thought among the early Greeks and their progress into the two great systems of Plato and Aristotle. Selections from Plato and Aristotle are read and discussed to determine the meaning and significance of philosophical ideas that have subsequently influenced the whole history of Western civilization.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A study of the logical structure of argumentation in ordinary language, with an emphasis on the relation of logic to the uses of language in practical affairs. Traditional informal fallacies are studied as well. Discussions explore the nature of validity, truth, meaning, and evidence in relation to the evaluation of arguments.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A combined historical and systematic analysis of the problems of ethics. Such problems as the nature and meaning of moral values and judgments, moral responsibility and freedom, conscience and happiness, the good life, and the relativity of value, are explored through the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Mill, and Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Limited to 16 freshmen who are introduced to philosophy through a combined historical and systematic analysis of the problems of ethics. Such problems as the nature and meaning of moral values and judgments, moral responsibility and freedom, conscience and happiness, the good life, and the relativity of value are explored through the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Mill, and Nietzsche. Students write a series of analyses and critiques of selected works, as well as present papers and critiques in tutorial situations.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The development of philosophical thought in the United States from the colonial era to the 20th century. Studies such thinkers as Edwards, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Peirce, James, Dewey, and King, and their ideas on human nature, free will, religion, morality, and politics.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Emphasizes social ethics through critical studies of such contemporary problems as abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, pornography and censorship, animal rights, drug use, sexual morality, environmental ethics, and world hunger.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Surveys and examines ethical problems concerning the institutions and practices of contemporary business. Problems considered include: the conflicts of economic freedom and social responsibility; the relation of profits to work and alienation; the responsibilities of business to employees, minorities, consumers and the environment; the role of truthfulness in business practices; and the ethics of self-fulfillment and career ambitions. Readings selected from works of contemporary and historical philosophers, social theorists, and business people.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The development of European philosophy from the Epicurean and Stoic philosophies of the Graeco-Roman world to the nominalism of William of Occam. Emphasizes the problem of philosophical knowledge, selected metaphysical questions, and the development of Scholasticism. The works of Plotinus, St. Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam are read and discussed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A survey of the principal philosophical perspectives of Asia. Emphasis on the traditional Indian schools of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism, Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, and the development of Zen Buddhism in China and Japan. Philosophical topics include: mystical experience, the ultimate nature of reality, the existence of a soul, the causes of human suffering, and the possibility of release, the nature of virtue and its development, and the nature of society and government.
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