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3.00 Credits
In-depth critical exploration of selected theories to explain the sources of women's roles in society. A multidisciplinary approach will be employed to account for the social, economic, political and cultural status of women in contemporary societies.
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3.00 Credits
The class explores fundamental issues relating to life and death. In particular, it looks at what constitutes life and what, if anything, makes life good. It also investigates what constitutes death and whether death is bad. Using thee notions, the class then analyzes particular moral issues surrounding life and death, such as the moral status of the following practices: abortion, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, and war.
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3.00 Credits
The proper form of human association, the just balance of economic, political, and social power, and the nature of the relationship between the state and the individual are explored in the works of prominent historical and contemporary theorists. The course examines the nature of social commitment as viewed by major political philosophies.
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical problems in the arts. Nature of art and aesthetic appreciation; aesthetic attitude, experience, and emotion; relations between art and art institutions; interpretation and evaluation of works of art are among topics considered. Problems specific to music, film, literature, painting, and sculpture are also discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Existentialism is a philosophical realization of living in a broken, ambiguous, dislocated world into which we are thrown and condemned yet abandoned and free. The course examines the work of authors such as Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir. Students confront the main themes of life: anxiety, authentic living, meaning, love, relationships, God, and death.
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0.00 - 99.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The development of a formal system of logic with relations and multiple quantifiers, identity and definite descriptions. Other topics may include non-classical logics, modal logic (the logic of possibility and necessity), set theory, or results concerning the scope and limits of logical systems.
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore abortion from theoretical and legal perspectives. They will investigate various underlying theoretical issues and the factual and legal aspects if abortion. Students will combine these concepts and explore the moral status of abortion.
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3.00 Credits
The course investigates the criminal justice system and the limits of state coercion. May the state coerce persons only to prevent some persons from harming others? May it do so to protect persons from harming themselves or to protect society's moral fabric? The class will then examine the justification of punishment. Is punishment justified because it reforms offenders, because offenders deserve punishment, or because punishment deters other potential defenders? Finally, the class explores contemporary moral issues such as whether the state should criminalize recreational drug use, hate crimes, or blackmail.
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3.00 Credits
Careful examination of moral issues arising in business contexts such as the duty to tell the truth, the profit motive, the relationship between private ownership and the public interest, the rights and duties of employees and employers, the responsibilities and liabilities of businesses to consumers, the respective roles of business and government, and business trends and social responsibility.
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