Classic non-Western texts on such problems as the nature of reality and of our knowledge of it, and the proper requirements of social ethics, along with comparison to classic Western approaches to the same problems. Krimerman Theories of ethics, with specific application to ethical issues in modern health care. Philosophical problems raised by, and illuminated in, major works of literature. May be repeated with a change in topic for a maximum of six credits. Philosophical dimensions of problems in contem-porary life.
Topics vary by semester.
Open to sophomores. Elias The fundamentals of aesthetics, including an analysis of aesthetic experience and judgment, and a study of aesthetic types, such as the beautiful, tragic, comic and sublime. Recent systematic and experimental findings in relation to major theories of the aesthetic experience. 205W. Aesthetics 210. Metaphysics and Epistemology Either semester.