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3.00 Credits
The attention of this course is directed at the question: What does it mean to be a human being? The course will systematically examine some of the leading views of human existence set forth over the last 24 centuries. The guiding perspective for the investigation will come from contemporary suggestions. Thinkers of this century have urged that we must pay close attention to the fact that while humans do have the capacity to act independently of the constraints of instinctual and biologically determined behavior, we are embodied, and thus must acknowledge the historical, linguistic, and cultural elements of our being. Within this context, the course will reflect on the objective, subjective, or ultimately fluid character of human nature. It will examine the variously suggested rational, passionate, playful, moral, religious, or gender based character of humanity. Three credits.
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Ethics is practical philosophy indicating, in general, what humans ought to do in the light of appropriate rules of conduct and suitable ends. Some fundamental views of right and good are considered in their classical formulations by such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Problems and examples are used to illustrate these views and to provoke judgments regarding concrete issues. Three credits.
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This course will consider opposing viewpoints on contemporary issues such as abortion, racism, sexual morality, the environment, capital punishment, hunger, legislation, and public policy. Students will also be asked to review concepts such as subjectivism, psychological and ethical egoism, the relationship between morality and religion, and the possibility of objectivity in ethics. Three credits.
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This course investigates the different ways that human beings think of the environment and the influence that these various conceptions have upon defining what, if any, responsibility human beings have to the natural world. Special attention will be given to the source and meaning of the term ‘value’ as well as to the specificationsthat are used to assign or distribute this term. The principal environmental theories that indicate the origin and range of value that will be examined include: anthropocentrism, individualism, holism, biocentrism, ecocentrism, speciesism and ecofeminism. Some practical concerns that will be examined in order to consider the implications of the various value theories are urban growth, poverty, use of natural resources, energy production, food production and distribution, pollution and population control. Three credits.
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This course will examine the ethical issues surrounding such postmodern technologies as genetic manipulation, human and animal cloning, and the “creation” of transgenic organisms as well as themoral dilemmas that result from gene therapy, contraception, stem cell and fetal tissue research, and the use of animals and humans as test subjects. Three credits.
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This course explores, both topically and historically, the various avenues which philosophical thought has followed in its attempts to understand how humans gain knowledge of themselves and the world in which they are situated. Representative views of classical thought, Continental rationalism, British empiricism, transcendental idealism, 20th-century realism, and phenomenology will be examined. In each case, the structure of consciousness and the relation of consciousness to objects known will be explored. Flowing from this will be a consideration of their respective accounts of perception, conception, memory, judgment, and truth. Throughout the course, each of the views will be critically evaluated as to its adequacy of the human experience. Three credits.
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In this course participants will seek to explore the puzzling relationship between Eros and philia. We will lay down a foundation by seeking traditional philosophical answers as to how to embrace the paradoxical aspects of love, looking for advice from such diverse thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Rousseau, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. After establishing this footing we will extend our investigation by listening to the counsel of psychologists, psychoanalysts, artists and poets. Finally, we will look to contemporary contributions made by those employing the tools of feminism and poststructural analysis. Interspersed throughout the course we will concretize our theoretical reflections with examinations of specific issues such as the dialectic between the erotic and the pornographic and the multivalenced direction of sexuality. Prerequisite: Two previous courses in philosophy. Three credits.
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This course is designed to introduce the student to some of the basic metaphysical themes. It will be concerned with various areas of theoretical philosophy, considering questions regarding: the nature of the world, knowledge and truth, freedom, the mindbody view of man, and various conceptions of God. The approach of the course will be problem-oriented, and the medium will be the views of various major thinkers in Western Philosophy. Three credits.
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In this course students will consider major theories in the philosophy of art, working to gain a pluralistic understanding of aesthetics. These concepts, from classical, contemporary and post-modern sources, will be applied to works of art from a variety of media. Three credits.
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This course discusses the term "god" as used among differentpeoples and cultures, with special emphasis, of course, on the Judeo- Christian understanding of it. Distinct from sacred theology, it examines by the light of reason the proofs for the existence of God and related questions. The course also considers modern problems about theism and atheism. Three credits.
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