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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major topics in the philosophy of education. Readings from the major philosophers of education (Plato, Rousseau, Schiller, Dewey, William James, Whitehead, Buber) and from other important traditional and contemporary theorists (Piaget, Montessori, A.S. Neill, Chomsky, Coles, Illich, Freire, Kozol, Goodman, Gilligan) are discussed. Topics include: the world of the child, play and imagination, the acquisition of language, the maturation of mind, ethics and the education of character, the social and political role of education.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major topics in traditional and contemporary philosophy of art: the nature of aesthetic experience, artistic creation, aesthetic judgment, objectivity and truth in art, the meaning of beauty, the social role of art and art criticism. These issues are examined in connection with the practice and appreciation of the various arts including: literature, theatre, painting and sculpture, architecture, dance, music, photography and film.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the central issues of social and political philosophy. Topics may include the legitimacy of the state, political power and personal freedom, peace and social justice, the concept of human rights, civil disobedience, and revolution. Representative authors include Aristotle, Alfarabi, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Dewey, Camus, Rawls.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore philosophical issues raised by modern medical technology and practice, such as: experiments on humans and animals; genetic engineering; transplants; the responsibility of the hospital to the community; decisions about who gets limited medical resources; the issues surrounding AIDS; mental illness and behavior control; patient rights, including the right to the truth.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of such topics in the philosophy of religion as the varieties of religious experience, arguments for and against the existence of God, the relation of faith to reason, the problem of evil, the concept of the soul and its immortality, the relation of religion to science, ethics and the arts. Some attention is given to non-Western traditions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and the world of Islam.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the novel as a medium of philosophical expression. Readings from works of major novelists such as Melville, Dostoevsky, Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Mann, Faulkner, Lawrence, Hesse, Camus, Calvino and Kundera are included.
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3.00 Credits
The continued inability of people to make peace worldwide and the ever threatening possibility of nuclear war causes thinking people everywhere to ask philosophical questions about war and peace. Is lasting peace possible or is war inevitable? What kinds of moral issues are raised by contemporary war technology? Is nuclear war a rational option? Is pacifism defensible? Course materials come from philosophy, films, fiction and other sources.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the writings of the great Western philosophers: the pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and neo- Platonists. Some attention is given to non-Western traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the major movements in early modern philosophy beginning with Descartes and the rise of modern science and concluding with the critical philosophy of Kant. The focus is on the Continental rationalist and British empiricist traditions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the topics in traditional and contemporary philosophy of history. Topics include: the meaning and nature of history, causes in history, historical explanation and interpretation, progress in history, the hero in history. Representative selections from such philosophers of history as Augustine, Hegel, Marx, Kant, Vico, Nietzsche, Cassirer, Freud, Sartre, Hook and N.O. Brown are included.
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