The deadline for the first submission of the paper will be the end of the first week of the last semester, normally the eighth. Please see advisor or Chair for other details. These details should be pursued no later than the first two months of the second semester, the junior year. An appropriate choice of electives can add considerable focus to the study of philosophy. For this reason the Department considers consultation on electives to the student's advantage.
Language studies are especially encouraged.
Philosophy I Plato and Aristotle have exercised such unequaled influence on the course of Western ideas that the whole subsequent history of philosophy could be considered an extended footnote to their writings. It treats of the problems of participation and analogy. The contributions of Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas, to the development of these themes are explored. Some considerations, though necessarily less, are given to what these thinkers maintained to be the purpose of human life and the means of achieving it. In one of the traditional views of the liberal arts logic was considered to be a formal preparation for science and philosophy.