Logical analysis, however, is not the only resource available for ethical understanding. For most people stories are a more familiar and influential medium. Drawing on stories ranging from parables and folk tale to post-modern film and fiction, this course will look at narrative as ethical discourse. Offered during Interim. An interdisciplinary approach to war and peace, this course incorporates the dual perspective of philosophy and history.
Students study various ethical arguments as shaped in different cultures.
The course begins with warfare as treated in the Bible and concludes with nuclear terrorism. This international travel course explores economic and social developments along the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Topics of interest range from the Hanseatic League of the 13th century to the current transition from Soviet-style central planning to a Western European social market system. This thematic study of the encounter of Western Christianity with the Orthodox East begins with their common Biblical origins. They study key moments in the theological contact between West and East through classical theological and spiritual texts.