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Rene Descartes is known as the Father of Modern Philosophy. This course is designed to introduce Descartes' major ideas in the context of a discussion of how to read and evaluate a philosophical text. ( Spring)
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Twentieth-century philosophy is already being called the Age of Russell. Reading Russell prepares one for studying most of the work that has been done in the past 100 years on logic, ethics, theory of knowledge, metaphysics, political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and the history of philosophy.
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Readings from major existentialist thinkers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger and Sartre. Comparative interpretations of ontology, religion, knowledge, value and culture. Supported by diverse existential readings drawn from a variety of writers.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the major ideas of Sartre and Heidegger. Students will discuss various themes of being, nothingness, authenticity, irrationality and faith. ( Fall)
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This course serves as an introduction to G?del's work in logic and philosophy, and is also designed to serve as an introduction to metaphysics and to the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of mathematics. It pays particular attention to ideas of G?del that sharpen our understanding of these three concepts: Truth, Proof, and Infinity. Students will also study provability logic, which is useful for its characterization in an elementary setting of G?del's most famous work, his results on the incompleteness of logic and mathematics.
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Kierkegaard and Nietzsche were seminal thinkers who changed the focus of philosophizing. They were the first to insist on the limits of reason and to deal with irrationality, the incommensurability between the finite and infinite, and to describe the absurd, finite and contingent aspects of existence and culture. But from these shared assumptions Kierkegaard concluded to subjectivity and faith while Nietzsche returned to an aesthetic morality and valued creativity.
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Reading, discussion and writing dealing with evil, defined as undeserved suffering or harm. The problem is what can philosophy say about the collective evils of wars, the slaughter by weapons of mass destruction, state acts of genocide and terrorism as well as countless individual acts of murder and cruelty? Some explanations of evil argue an irresolvable division between good and evil, to evil as the absence of good and the condition of human freedom, to theodicies that explain God's ways to sustain a non-tragic worldview. Modern philosophies attempt to find prescriptions to conquer or endure evil in the processes of history, economics, psychology and ethics and these explanations run the gamut from "radical evil," to "beyond good and evil" and contrasts between "the banality of evil" and the paralysis of moral reflection confronted by the relativity of evil. No Prerequisites Also offered as PHL.5041
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Augustine and Aquinas are two of the great pillars of Western thought generally, and of Christian philosophy specifically. Both constructed extraordinary theological systems which deal with the tenets drawn from revelation. Both also dealt with exquisitely philosophical problems such as the objectivity of human knowledge, the nature of reality, the nature of man's ultimate end, without explicitly recurring to theological tenets. This course will give an overview of their philosophical thought. The problems we shall cover include: (1) Is human knowledge objective?; (2) can man know God?; (3) how does faith alter rational systems? (4) what is the human person?; (4) what is the will?
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Introduces candidates for Honors in Logic both to the study of logic at the graduate level and to the art of original research in logic. Topics to be covered vary and the course may be repeated for credit given sufficient change in research topics. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Reading, discussion and writing dealing with evil, defined as undeserved suffering or harm. The problem is what can philosophy say about the collective evils of wars, the slaughter by weapons of mass destruction, state acts of genocide and terrorism as well as countless individual acts of murder and cruelty? Some explanations of evil argue an irresolvable division between good and evil, to evil as the absence of good and the condition of human freedom, to theodicies that explain God's ways to sustain a non-tragic worldview. Modern philosophies attempt to find prescriptions to conquer or endure evil in the processes of history, economics, psychology and ethics and these explanations run the gamut from "radical evil," to "beyond good and evil" and contrasts between "the banality of evil" and the paralysis of moral reflection confronted by the relativity of evil. No Prerequisites
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