1999-2000 - The University of Scranton

PHIL 311 Drs. Baillie, McGinley
(P)Metaphysics 3 credits
A textual inquiry into the adequacy of
philosophers’ answer to the fundamental
question, “What is?” Special attention will
be given to Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas,
Kant’s critical philosophy and the issues
of nature and history.
PHIL 312 Dr. Rowe
(P)Modern Philosophy III 3 credits
This course is a study of four figures in
nineteenth century philosophy: Hegel,
Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche. We will
consider such issues as the relation
between philosophy and non-philosophical
experience, the place of philosophy in
society, the theme of conflict in life and
thought, and the simultaneous spread and
decay of humanism in the nineteenth century.
PHIL 313 Dr. Klonoski
(P)Philosophy 3 credits
and Friendship
This course will be an historical survey of
primary texts which discuss friendship.
Readings in the course will be taken from
authors of the ancient, medieval, modern
and contemporary periods in the history of
philosophy. Some of these authors whose
works will be discussed are, Xenophon,
Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, de
Montaigne, Bacon, Kant, Emerson,
Nietzsche, Gray, Arendt and Sartre.
PHIL 314 Dr. Meagher
Philosophy and the City 3 credits
This course allows students to explore
philosophical issues connected to urban
and public policy as a way of developing a
deeper understanding of their own relation
to the city and their roles as citizens. The
course will analyze the city as a site of
tension between community and difference,
as a space of public citizenship, and
as built environment that reflects human
connection to art and nature.
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PHIL 315 Dr. Baillie
(P)Twentieth-Century 3 credits
Political Philosophy
This course is a survey of modern social
contract theory and its relation to capitalism,
and of modern Marxism. Issues raised
will include obligation and consent, equality,
freedom and self-determination, the
role of markets, and the role of the state.
PHIL 319 Fr. McKinney
Philosophy of Law 3 credits
A study of the various justifications of law
and their implications. Special consideration
will be given to the problems of civil
disobedience and the force of law in private
institutions.
PHIL 320 Dr. Black
(P)Aesthetics 3 credits
The main theories of the essential character
of beauty or art, how they are judged,
how they are related to the mind and the
whole person, how they are created and
how this creativity expresses a commitment
to oneself and to the world.
PHIL 321 Dr. Nordberg
Great Books 3 credits
Major thinkers in the Western philosophical,
religious, political and literary traditions.
This course emphasizes philosophical
themes in literature.
PHIL 325 Dr. Meagher
Literature and Ethics 3 credits
This course examines that "old quarrel
between philosophy and literature," the
dispute between Plato and Ancient
Athenian poets regarding the source of
morality, and studies how this quarrel continues
in contemporary moral discourse.
The aims of this course are to: (1) gain a
better understanding of issues in contemporary
moral thinking, especially regarding
so-called “narrative approaches to
ethics”; and (2) rethink the “old quarrel,”
as we examine contemporary philosophers’
turns to literature in an attempt to
reconstruct the concept of moral agency.