This course focuses on topics fundamental to living an aware life. What is the nature of human freedom? What are its limits? What is the good life? What is a just society like? What are the limits of human knowledge? The course explores questions such as these.
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Society depends upon multiple professional services and supports. The professional provider has an obligation to be proficient at that profession and to incorporate moral principles and values in activities involving advertising, decision-making, and delivery systems. Professional adherence to ethical principles nurtures a society where citizens can pursue happiness. Upon completion of this course, students can apply critical reasoning to moral dilemmas. Students gain functional knowledge of the great ethical theories and concepts and relate this knowledge to professional and corporate codes of ethics in establishing an ethical foundation of business practice.
Students explore the use of logic in everyday settings to analyze ideas, evaluate arguments, draw logical conclusions, and sort relevant from irrelevant statements. Students also study problem-solving techniques.
This course provides the opportunity to develop skills of moral reasoning through analysis of concepts and problems. It includes the clarification of the connection between philosophical theory, contemporary views, and students' own moral thinking. Students study the most important ethical theories and examine their application to the practical moral problems people face in their lives.
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This course examines the great religions of humanity comparing them with regard to their origins, world views, beliefs, philosophies of man, and thoughts about our place in the universe.
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This course examines both traditional and recent literature in relation to the ethical, metaphysical, social, and aesthetic contexts that informed these works of literature. This course pairs fiction, poetry, and dramatic works closely to their philosophical partners, such as Charles Dickens' Hard Times with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill; Alice Walker's The Color Purple with black women philosophers; or Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Nietzsche and Plato.
The course discusses and examines current issues in feminist philosophies, social and political philosophies, multiculturalism, and post-modernism in relation to their criticisms of traditional philosophy and in relation to how they envision the world. It emphasizes how to think beyond the current conflict.
This course permits instruction in special content areas not included in other Philosophy courses. Topics may include contemporary issues, the philosophy of art and literature, and the foundations of science and technology.