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Philosophy 12 Academic 1.0 Credit
This course serves as a primer, introducing students to the “big ideas” and
intellectual movements that have been in part shaped by their times and
cultures, and, in turn, have influenced thinkers belonging to subsequent
eras and other cultures. From queries into the “nature of wo/man”, the place
of humans in relation to the cosmos, nature/mystic philosophies, religious
transcendentalism, and the influence of science on our modes of thought and
approaches to social and ethical problems, philosophy and its practitioners
have always attempted to sort out ‘what is’, what might be, and to what
extremes the human mind can be utilized in establishing certainties in
various areas of consideration.
Students of this course will learn some history surrounding the evolution,
successes and failures of philosophy, as well as how to apply their own
powers of logic (and, possibly, powers of intuition) in trying to analyze,
respond to, and perhaps even solve problems which thinkers in various
civilizations continue to puzzle over to this very day. Knowledge and
understanding will be obtained and brought to bear through the usual
academic channels of discussion, reading and writing.
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