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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores Augustine's great autobiographical, classic where he presents the course of his life, from hedonism to Christianity. The course, examines why the story of Augustine's spiritual, journey to God still exerts a major influence, upon the hearts and minds of people today as they, try to cope with eternity, evil, love and God in, a world often blind to these.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Studies Plato's philosophical masterpiece. The, course explores the meaning of goodness both for, an individual and for society by investigating, the values of wisdom, honor, money, freedom,, power, love and passion. It tries to define, what people can reasonably expect from themselves, and from one another.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Considers Aristotle's great treatise on ethics., The course looks at Aristotle's account of, happiness as the goal of human life, and the role, of moral and intellectual virtue in achieving, this goal. The treatise ends with a consideration, of the place of friendship, and the intellectual, life, in human well-being.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Explores the cathedral of thought of the medieval, intellectual world. Situating St. Thomas, historically as the synthesizer of the two great, traditions of Augustinian wisdom and Aristotelian, science, the course considers just how far reason, can go in proving God's existence, in describing, His nature and ours, in providing a useful map, of reality, and by prescribing how we should, live.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Surveys seminal ethical texts in the Western, tradition, including Plato's Gorgias, works by, Aristotle, Aquinas' treatises On Happiness and On, Law, Mill's Utilitarianism and Kant's Groundwork, for the Metaphysics of Morals. The course, situates these texts in their historical and, cultural contexts, and grapples with underlying, metaphysical and anthropological issues at stake, in competing views of ethics.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Studies the Enlightenment period of the 17th and, 18th centuries, in which individuals emphasized, the power of reason to understand the universe., The course examines how the methodology of, scientists influenced the thought of philosophers., It also considers the effect of a mechanistic,, materialistic world view on religious, understanding.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanites 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Examines the issue of ultimate meaning. The, course investigates the meaning of God, explores, rational support for belief in God,, evaluates the claims of atheism, studies the, problem of evil in the world, and examines the, significance of religion in the life of both a, person and a community.
Prerequisite:
PL-109, Humanities 1 and 2
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the presence, nature and function of, creativity and beauty in human life. The course, concentrates on the nature and value of, creativity, of the work of art, and of the, reception of art by the viewer or auditor. It is, not intended to be a course in art appreciation, but rather an analysis of the sources and, modalities of human creativity and of beauty.
Prerequisite:
PL-109
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3.00 Credits
Special courses that deal with particular, issues in the world philosophical thought. , These will include Humanities IV courses, on "Great Works of Literature" and other courses, taught by visiting professors.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the traditional problems and, processes associated with human knowing., Limited to juniors and seniors.
Prerequisite:
PL-109
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