Introduction to Philosophy

Catalog description

This course introduces students to a broad range of philosophical issues; readings include major philosophers of the Western tradition: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Sartre. Students will consider issues of ethics, the nature of reality, religious philosophy and the nature of God, the limits of human knowledge, freedom and predestination, and the nature of the good life. Prerequisite: None. Offered: F, Su.