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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course probes the nature of ultimate reality. Topics include appearance versus reality, being and becoming, essence and existence, space and time. Is there knowledge beyond the reach of science? How can we know what really exists?
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature and the scope of knowledge. What does it mean to know, and what is the nature of truth? What can be known, and can we be justified in our beliefs about what goes beyond the evidence of our senses? Is all knowledge innate or acquired in experience? What are the grounds and the limits of knowledge?
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of moral concepts and principles. Topics include happiness, friendship, virtue, intention, and duty. Ethics asks: Is there a supreme good that all rational beings seek? Are there universal moral values? What is the difference between judgments of value and judgments of fact?
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3.00 Credits
The course is a systematic study of the ideas of the great philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Marx. Philosophy is a continuous dialogue about ideas of enduring interest, such as truth, goodness, beauty, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, conceptions of happiness, and the good life.
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3.00 Credits
This course is concerned with theories of art and beauty, philosophical ideas within the various forms of art, and concepts in the interpretation of art: meaning, intention, style, purpose, and value. It addresses various ideas of art as representation of reality, imitation of appearances, significant form, and expression of feeling. Guest artists, visits to museums, and attendance at concerts are features of the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the historical development of philosophical ideas of India and China. The perspectives of Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism on the nature or reality, knowledge, and the moral life will be discussed. The main themes are the knowledge of ultimate reality, the cultivation of the individual life as the basis of harmony in the world, and being one with reality.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the human predicament: What are we doing on this earth? If God does not exist, is everything permitted? Are we condemned to be free? Are anguish, dread, fear and trembling, and despair inescapable? Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, and Sartre answer these questions in our survey of the origin and development of existentialism, and its impact on psychology, religion, literature, and the arts.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages in discussions of central topics in political philosophy: the origins and limits of political authority, the duties of the citizen to the government, the rights of the individual vis-a-vis the state, the conflict between civic duty and individual freedom, justice and the ideal society. Readings are drawn from Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the elements of formal logic. Topics are propositional and predicate logic, set theory, foundations of mathematics, and formal semantics. Readings include Frege, Russell, Goedel, and Tarski.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of philosophical ideas in literature and how literature gives visible form to truths discovered in philosophical reflection. Readings are drawn from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Shakespeare, More, Hobbes, Pope, Blake, Kant, Keats, Tolstoy, and Sartre. Topics include truth, beauty, goodness, and free will.
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