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. Their revolutionary views of selfhood, time, moral responsibility and authentic living, profoundly influence thought in the twentieth century. In this class you will read important existential philosophers and trace their influence in twentieth-century literature and film. Enrollment is limited to sophomores and transfers.