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Prerequisite: PHI 2200. An investigation of the standards and procedures for political legitimation, including an analysis of the following: the common good of the political community, the greatest good for the greatest number, the promotion of virtue, and agreement resulting from a social contract or ideal discourse. Special attention is given to an examination of the nature, function, and justification of "rights.? ?Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 2200C. In a world described as postmodern, a world increasingly marked by violence and irrationality, the traditional philosophical search for meaning and ethical value, and the ideas of truth and rationality have been called into question. This course examines the response to this crisis by recent Continental thought. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 2200. The response to authentic moral values in man's inter-personal existential encounter with modern life and its moral problems. Among the topics treated are: the dignity of the human being, sex, abortion, birth control, sterilization, lying, racial discrimination, free speech, labor unions, Socialism, Communism, war and peace. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 2200. A critical analysis of current problems in social and medical ethics, with an effort to resolve these problems where possible in the light of a realistic ethical and social philosophy. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 2200. A philosophical investigation of the environment and its relationship to the human person. Special emphasis is placed on the moral issues that arise from that relationship such as the moral standing of non-humans and the responsibility of the present generation to future generations. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 2200. An investigation of social justice issues in the contemporary postmodern world. The course discusses how various philosophical theories and historical perspectives can aid or distort our understanding of social justice and its concretization. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 3000C and three credits in the physical/biological sciences. The logic and methodology of science with special emphasis on the theory ladenness of observation, the nature and structure of scientific theories and the verification/falsification of laws and theories. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 3000C and three credits in the physical/biological sciences. A study of the fundamental philosophical issues that have arisen in the history of physics, astronomy and cosmology. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisites: PHI 3000C, and three credits in the physical/biological sciences. An issueoriented investigation of the methods and results of the science of biology. Among the issues discussed are the fact of evolution, theories of evolution, teleological explanations, reductionism and organism, taxonomy and the uniqueness of method in biology. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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Prerequisite: PHI 1000C. A philosophical probe into the nature of meaning, mystery and metaphysics in relation to the truth contained in literature, more specifically stories and most specifically the Catholic novel. The course explores the philosophical outlook of novelists such as Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Francois Mauriac, George Bernanos, Walker Percy, Morris West and Flannery O'Connor. Credit: 3 semester hours.
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