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2.00 Credits
In this course, we will consider important philosophical questions regarding violence, atrocities, memory, and forgiveness by analyzing world cinema that addresses these topics. Primary texts will include feature length films, television, photography, and documentary; we will pair those texts with philosophical readings that examine the nature of injustice and its consequences on those who survive conflict and those who remember. Themes discussed will include gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, religion, and identity.
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2.00 Credits
How does the exploitation of the environment relate to the oppression of women? Why do traditional views of women tie them together with animals and land? What can indigenous knowledges offer to contemporary pushes for sustainability? How can advocating for women's rights around the globe promote environmentalism as well? In this class, we will explore these questions and many nothers as we read about historic and contemporary environmental movements led by women and examine theories about how developmental movements became gendered. This class will be interdisciplinary, considering historical, political, and sociological issues alongside philosophical theories. It will also be rooted in the concept of intersectionality, looking at how the concerns about gender and the environment can never be separated from concepts of race and class.
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2.00 Credits
Using both fictional and documentary films as our primary subject matter, we explore the ethical and economic aspects of the phenomenon of making money by investing money in the stock market. We will look at the history of the stock market as a prelude to engaging in close analysis of the motives of investors, the ethical and economic consequences of investing, the political dimensions of the market and the social significance of market capitalism.
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2.00 Credits
This course concerns the genre-bending fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinian thinker who wrote fascinating and easy-to-read short stories that simultaneously constitute philosophical investigations of freedom, being, reality and illusion, ethics, identity, and the nature of creativity. We will read a modest collection of his short stories and discuss them in seminar style.
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2.00 Credits
In this course, we will read, write about, and discuss philosophical works related to issues of sorrow, irrationality, and recovery. This is not a psychology course; we will not look at mental illness from a scientific or medical perspective, but instead, focus on particular examples as a philosophical phenomenon. This course will focus on two terms, "madness" and "melancholy," as sites of philosophical reflection on questions like "what makes for a good society," "how should humans relate to God," "what are our obligations to ourselves and others," and "what is the self?" Throughout this course, we will draw from texts in the classical American, existentialist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic traditions.
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2.00 Credits
Ah! A perfect world and a perfect life! So goes the utopian storyline in various writings by that name. In this course, we explore what makes a world or society perfect or upends that perfection. Ought we desire such a world? Using novels, essays, and short stories we examine proposed utopian schemes for the qualities that make for a perfect life and how such schemes go wrong producing dystopian nightmares. Are we wise enough to build our own utopian societies?
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2.00 Credits
Harry Potter(HP) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), acting in two different imagined worlds, are alike engaged in a battle against evil adversaries in order to save their respective worlds. This course is an extended comparison and contrast of HP and BtVS as agents of good and their opponents as agents of evil. Taking into account the importance of their friends in the battles against evil, we address the following questions, among others: why are friends and friendship an essential element of HP and BtVS battle against their evil opponents?; what sort of evil does each agent for the good confront and where does it come from?; Is evil or good in both storylines relative or absolute in nature?; and how close do HP and BtVS, and their friends, come to becoming what they so relentlessly oppose?
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2.00 Credits
This course explores the contributions selected religions have made and continue to make to the use of violence as a means to achieve secular and/or religious goals. We will look at the three monotheisms, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and Hinduism both historically and contemporaneously as to their role in causing and/or justifying violence. The profoundly insightful work of Girard, Derrida and Levinas on the relationship between religions and the presence of violence in the world will be used to get at the underlying structures of the religion(s)-violence connection.
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2.00 Credits
A concentrated study of one or two related philosophers and the major themes of their important works. Prerequisite: PHIL 102.
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4.00 Credits
A concentrated study of one or two related philosophers and the major themes of their important works. Prerequisite: PHIL 102.
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