Throughout, the emphasis will be on developing students' moral sensitivity and imagination in applying ethical principles to practical problems thus fostering ethically sound business making. Lectures and group discussions of various ethical traditions in application to actual and hypothetical cases. Readings will include relevant articles by leading ethicists, legal cases and court decisions, literary selections, and clinical case analyses. A survey of the major philosophers from the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and NeoPlatonism, to the early Christians, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and Ockham.
Attention focuses on the problems of Being and Knowing.
Insights of modern psychology are drawn upon, especially the views of Freud, Adler, Jung, and Fromm, but the essentially philosophical character of the problems of love and personhood are the central focal interests. A comprehensive overview of the many ways human values are revealed and clarified in the various arts. Beginning with the contrast between art as creative process and as aesthetic product, discussion moves to consider various philosophical definitions and theories of art and aesthetic value, types of art criticism, and the ideas of artistic form, subject matter, content, and medium. These terms are employed and illustrated in discussion of the spatial and temporal arts. Throughout, the aim is to understand the relation of art and artist to the abiding values emergent in human experience.