It attempts to provide a newccosmological model for adjudicating between conflicting rights and duties. Issues to be discussed include animal rights, environmental protection, and ecological harmony. While many cultures accord a vital role to stories, myths, and poetry in the cultivation of wisdom, traditional European philosophy has tended to marginalize them. This course seeks to investigate the historical roots for this separation between philosphy and literature in European thought. This course concentrates on the construction of meaning in the context of cinema.
Major emphasis is placed on cinema as a product of social stereotypes.
Major figures to be studied include Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and Skinner. Thematic emphasis will be on the historic interaction between psychology and philosophy in the development of Western thought. PHI 230 Philosophy of Religion Analysis of the nature of religious experience, knowledge, and language. Special attention given to problems, classical and contemporary, exhibited in religious experience and relevant to areas of common concern in the sciences, humanities, and philosophy. Questions to be raised include whether these two approaches are mutually exclusive or whether one can subsume the other, and at what cost.