Global Philosophy

Catalog description

EDP, GS, H- This course introduces students to philosophical ideas and systems emerging from outside the Western analytic philosophical perspective. Students can expect to explore and assess perennial questions about such topics as the nature of reality, truth, value, knowledge, and religion as they have been engaged with by such traditions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other historical and cultural perspectives emerging from non-Western cultures. The goal of this course is to help students see the similarities and differences in how these topics have been and are dealt with by philosophers around the globe and outside the Western canon, and in so doing, better understand their own views and how they are informed by familiar and unfamiliar cultural and philosophical influences.