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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Survey of intellectual history from early Greek through late Medieval thought. Includes Pre?Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureans, Stoics, Augustine, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. Readings include both primary and secondary sources. Can substitute for MMM to satisfy Liberal Arts Foundation - Philosophical Foundations; can also be taken for Liberal Arts Exploration - Humanities. (In combination with either PHIL 202 or PHIL 242, meets both Liberal Arts Foundation - Philosophical Foundations and Liberal Arts Exploration - Humanities.)
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3.00 Credits
A philosophical study of art and aesthetic experience focusing on the value of art for human life, rather than the more narrow (and less useful) question of the definition of art. Explores the relative importance to a normative theory of art of such values as pleasure, beauty, expression of emotion, and understanding, and examines how these values can be embodied by various art forms, such as visual art, music, literature, the performing arts (dance and theater), and architecture.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduces students to Western political thought from the ancient to the modern world through a close reading of important thinkers. By considering problems of community, obligation, order, justice, liberty, and freedom, the course equips students for careful normative reflection on public life. (Cross-listed with Politics; Satisfies Liberal Arts Exploration - Humanities)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of specific movements or particular problems in philosophy, or themes in the history of ideas.
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3.00 Credits
How does postmodern philosophy relate to Christian faith? How should Christians live in a postmodern culture, which Australia exemplifies? Liberal Arts Exploration: Humanities, Philosophy major/minor, and Theology and Missions minor credit.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary analysis of the many faceted cultural phenomenon known as "postmodernism." Movesfrom an initial starting point considering postmodernism as a reaction to various philosophical claims associated with modernity to the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas as they have been transposed into a variety of other contexts in the analytic humanities, literature, arts and sciences. (Cross-listed with Humanities)
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4.00 Credits
Examination of contemporary perspectives on the nature and limits of human knowledge, as well as the concept of truth.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Analysis of traditional normative theories (formalism, consequentialism, and virtue ethics) through the reading of primary sources. Also explores developments in contemporary moral theory.
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3.00 Credits
Analytic approach to philosophic thought regarding some of the concepts and beliefs of Christian theism. Attention given to arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, and the roles of faith and reason in religious belief.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the rise of western science from its origins in antiquity to the present, addressing both the content and methods of science in each major period. Major figures considered include Aristotle, Galen, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, and Einstein. A wide range of science fields will be surveyed and specific attention is given throughout to the interrelationships between science and other disciplines, the relationship between science and culture, and the interaction of science and religion.
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