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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is taught in one of two ways: (1) an examination of representative ethical theories ranging from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Dewey, and more recent philosophers; (2) an attempt to develop moral criteria by examining representative moral problems confronting society. An analysis is made of the nature of moral discourse and the meaning of moral terms. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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Covers formal techniques in the logic of propositions and predicate logic. Three kinds of deductive derivationsdirect derivation, conditional proof and indirect derivation- are considered, as are shorter tests of validity and consistency. Recommended for debaters, lawyers, public speakers, and computer science majors. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of connections between Asian and Western traditions in political and social philosophy. Readings will include primary philosophical and literary texts from both traditions, as well as secondary texts that discuss relationships between the traditions. Topics to be covered may include Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, communitarianism, deontology, social contract theory, rights, attachment, colonialism, liberalism, rationality and induction. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
Deals with relationships between Asian and Western traditions in metaphysics and epistemology. Topics to be covered may include Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, objectivity, relativism, conceptual frameworks, pragmatism, meaning, ontology, substance, temporality, event, change, causation, Wittgenstein, Kant, personal identity, and attachment. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
The history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and early Neo-Platonists. Recommended for history majors. Also provides literature majors with the sources of classical intellectual allusions that abound in literature and drama. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to philosophical ideas of the Middle Ages among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Emphasis on the metaphysics of Augustine, Avicenna, Maimonides, and the works of Aquinas and Ockham. Prerequisite: PHIL 110 Philosophy 223
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3.00 Credits
Deals with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally with the following problems: the assimilation of science as faced by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz; the order of nature suggested by Newtonian science and its effect on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; natural theology in the Enlightenment; and the natural rights political philosophy of Locke and the British moralists. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to post-Kantian German idealism as exhibited by Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, et al., and the transformation of and the reaction against idealism as seen in the writings of Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
An analytic study of religious beliefs. Emphasis on the problems of the meaning and truth of religious utterances; the existence of God; the compatibility of God and evil; the relationship among religion, psychology, and morality; and the philosophical adequacy of mysticism, both East and West. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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3.00 Credits
An examination of theories of art from Plato to Dewey. The role of inspiration, intelligence, skill, expression, experience, and emotion in the arts is discussed. Prerequisite: PHIL 110
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