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HUMA 11500. Philosophical Perspectives I.
Examines "fundamental ethical issues--about virtue, the good life, and the role of the individual in society--in the works of ancient Greek writers as well as 20th-century writers in conversation with them."
sample texts: Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians, Martin Luther King and others
HUMA 11600. Philosophical Perspectives II
Examines "metaphysical and epistemological questions as they confronted participants and spectators of the 'scientific revolution'. Problems of skepticism, self-understanding and the social status of knowledge are at the fore."
sample texts: Descartes, Newton, Voltaire, and Mary Shelley
HUMA 11700. Philosophical Perspectives III
Examines "the constitution of agency and personal morality from the vantage point of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and novels"
sample texts: Hume, Kant, Nietzsche and Jane Austen