Top HSP 326 Nietzsche 4 hours . Top HSP 330 Topics in Philosophy 2 - 4 hours. Varying topics from year to year are selected from either the history of philosophy or contemporary philosophic problems. Major texts are Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics and The Constitution of Athens. There are also selected short readings from other ancient authors.
Thematic emphasis is on the connection between ethics and politics.
347 Social and Political Philosophy 4 hours. An inquiry into some problems of social philosophy or social theory, usually involving the nature of the state and the citizen's relation to it and the bearing of ethics and social science on this inquiry. Top HSP 348 Aesthetics 4 hours. Consideration of theories of aesthetic value, the problem of verifiability of critical judgments, reconciliation of conflicts of taste and choice, problems of form and content, nature of expression and aesthetic creation in fine arts, relations of arts to other human interests. 349 Philosophy of Religion 4 hours.