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INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY (PHL101 (UG09))

Term: Fall Semester 2009 (UNDG)

Schedule

Mon, 6:30 PM - 9:14 PM (8/24/2009 - 12/19/2009) Location: WMC (Aspen Center 111 - Not Reported)

Description

Introduction, exploration and analysis of topics of selected basic philosophical issues and problems, including the origins of ideas which have shaped Western thought and thinking today -- knowledge, belief and truth, causality, reality, the world and God, morality, the nature of persons, obligation, action and free will, the good life, the ideal community,- and the nature of the ultimate reality. Reading and critical discussion of both classical and contemporary texts. Prerequisite: Satisfactory placement. Three lecture.