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Apr 25, 2024
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PHI 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This introductory philosophy course examines the human attempt to answer questions about life, including the nature of right and wrong, our relation to others, the existence of a god, and the nature of freedom. It also includes defining truth, beauty, and knowledge. Students will analyze these questions about life while studying the work of important philosophers. This course prepares students for careers that require critical thinking, and encourages students to consider the perspectives of others.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Origins of Philosophy
- Philosophical questions
- Divisions of philosophy
- Key terms and concepts
- Benefits of philosophical inquiry
- Metaphysics & Epistemology
- Pre-Socratics
- Philosophy of Socrates and Plato
- Aristotle on existence, knowledge
- Plotinus
- Augustine and the rise of Christianity
- Thomas Aquinas
- Modern metaphysics and epistemology
- Thomas Hobbes and human nature
- Idealism of Locke and Berkeley
- David Hume on cause and effect
- Kant and things-in-themselves
- Hegel’s philosophy of history
- Overview of 18, 19, and 20th century philosophies
- Existentialism of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Sartre
- Phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger
- Hermeneutics of suspicion
- Pragmatic and analytic traditions
- Moral & Political Philosophy
- Ancient Greek moral philosophers
- Skepticism, relativism, and subjectivism
- Egoism
- Epicureanism and stoicism
- Christian and religious ethics
- Hobbes, Hume, and Kant
- Utilitarianism
- Nietzsche
- Natural law and rights theories
- Social contract and constitutional theory
- Liberalism and Marxism
- Normative ethics
- Rawls’ theory of justice
- Virtue ethics
- Objectivism of Ayn Rand and other “isms”
- Philosophy of Religion
- Anselm and Aquinas
- Mysticism
- Religious perspectives of Descartes, Leibniz, and Hume
- Kant on justification of God
- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and William James
- 20th century religious views
- Contemporary Voices
- Feminism and Womanism
- Perspectives of Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Carol Gilligan
- Living well according to Eastern religions
- Philosophies of post-colonial era
- Liberation philosophy and theology
- Determinism, free will and consciousness
- Art and aesthetics
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