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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregulalry) A study of how thinkers face the difficult task of relating philosophy and religion in the Middle Ages, and a look at the way this period helped to form the modern world. Studies include Augustine, Avicenna, Averroes, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.
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4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) An examination of major 17th- and 18th-century texts that explore the project of knowing the world as a mathematical construct. The course addresses the character and limits of human knowledge, the world we seek to know, and ourselves as knowers. The focus is on the crisis in self-understanding provoked by the promise of mathematical physics, the challenge of skepticism, and the elusiveness of “the real.” Readings include Descartes,Newton, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic ( o f fered irregularly) A critical study of the Enlightenment approach to ethics and politics in the natural rights and social contract theories. Topics include: tensions between the individual and the state; liberty and equality; reason and passion in the theory and practice of the great democratic revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries. Readings include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, and the Federalists.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Spring A study of thinkers who challenged accepted notions of reason and selfhood and, in doing so, helped shape the intellectual life of our present century. Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are some of the thinkers studied.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) Begins by looking at how late medieval notions about relations among God, humans, and world established a space in which modernity could develop. Students then look at Hegel’s reading of history, regarding what characterizes the modern situation as such. This is followed by a study of Heidegger’s critique of modernity and its ways of thinking.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall An inquiry into the conceptions of order and power from Confucius to the Sung Dynasty (12th century). Balance, hierarchy, relation, social organization, human nature, beauty, value, and truth are considered in Confucius, Mencius, Hsun Tse, Lao Tse, Chuang Tse, Han Fei Tse, Hui Neng, and Chu Hsi.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) A critical examination of contemporary liberal theory in the face of challenges from both left and right, including communitarianism, feminism, and post-structuralism.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) An investigation of recent philosophers who have made us rethink the relations among mind, language, and the world, and of the nature of selfhood. Philosophers may include Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson, Heidegger, Rort y, Putnam, and McDowell.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years Can we still believe in the goodness of human nature after atrocities like the Holocaust How does religious belief (or its absence) affect our moral interpretations of the world Are there universal moral standards, or are all such standards in the end culturally relative Is there such a thing as “radical evil” Readings from Kant, Nietzsche,Freud, Arendt, and others.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offe red irregularly) Identity and difference are at the center of current feminist work in ethics, epistemology, ontology, and political theory. The class reads feminist philosophers, focusing on the possibility, nature, and significance of gender identity as it bears on these. Prerequisite: At least one philosophy course; recommended: at least one course in women’s studies
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