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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three basic problems concerning reality and the quest to know reality: 1) the origin, validity, and limits of human knowledge; 2) Graeco-Christian, modern, and contemporary approaches to being and causality; and 3) the problem of God. Readings.
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3.00 Credits
A critical survey of the basic theories of human knowledge and the nature of reality, as found in the thought of the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Emphasis will be placed on the thought of Plato and Aristotle.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the basic problems of the Middle Ages: the theories of knowledge, the constitutive, ontological construction of things, the relations between things and an absolute, the naming of God, the distinction between philosophy and theology, the schools of realism and nominalism, the relation of body and soul, and the distinction of the sciences.
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A critical analysis of the rationalist and empiricist movements in philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries. Emphasis will be placed on both the epistemological theories of the philosophers involved and their metaphysical presuppositions. Attention will also be paid to the various proofs of God's existence offered by these philosophers.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the logic of ordinary language: the functions of language, forms of argument, fallacies, definition; analysis of propositions and deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning, analogy, and scientific hypothesis testing. Does not fulfill GER Requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Business, Society, and Ethics
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature of art and of aesthetic experience; art as revelation of reality and as alternative to reality; symbolism and meaning; criteria for critical evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the reality of death as the boundary of human experience. The course explores the meaning of death and its relationship to the meaning of life, examines evidence for and against the thesis that death is the end of human existence, and considers implications for selected contemporary issues ( e.g., "death with dignity," medical definition of death).
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3.00 Credits
Philosophical reflection from existential, analytic, and metaphysical perspectives on some of the following topics: religious experience and interpretation, belief, human destiny, evil, knowledge of and language about God. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the metaphysical conception of the human person forming the pre-understanding of the various theories of the social sciences; the relation of the various criteria for knowing to the theories which issue from them; the metaphysics of the reductions: materialism, positivism, historicism, cultural relativism; the epistemological problems of subjectivism, objectivism, scientific methodology, determinism, freedom.
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