This course explores the nature and function of ethical inquiry, views of social justice and their application to specific issues relevant to the field of social science. This course investigates the search for meaning and value in human experience specifically through the medium of art and literature. The aim is to give students a heightened awareness of their own assumptions and societal values. This course studies ancient Greek philosophy and the cultural world in which it arose. A major text of the period will be read and discussed.
Students learn how to identify, analyze and criticize philosophical ideas.
Much of contemporary philosophy has its roots in the modern period, from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. The purpose of the Modern Philosophy course is to introduce students to the philosophical thought and controversies of that period, with a special focus on rationalism and empiricism. Copyright Heritage College 2000-2001. Heritage College reserves the right to make changes to the information contained herein without prior notice.