A study of ancient ideals of good order that continue to be important in today's public and personal life, with special attention to classic texts and historically formative episodes in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the China of early Confucianism, and the Athens of Socrates and Plato. Philosophy and Religion. Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers. This course is a study of the rise and development of early Greek civilization. Some basic ethical and metaphysical ideas of Confucianism are compared with the ethical and metaphysical teaching of Heraclitus, Plato, and Aristotle.
Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers.
The great medieval discussion growing out of these questions in Christian Europe will be followed from Augustine through Bernard of Clairvaux, Abelard and Heloise, and Dante and Beatrice, with a view also toward parallels in the Islamic world. Philosophy and Religion. Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers. Enrollment is limited to freshmen and transfers. The post-Enlightenment existentialist philosophers do.