2003-2004 - The University of Scranton

nary language, deduction and induction, truth
and validity, definition, informal fallacies, categorical
propositions and syllogisms, disjunctive
and hypothetical syllogisms, enthymemes, and
dilemmas.
PHIL 218 3 cr.
(P,D) Feminism: Theory and Practice
What is feminism? What is the relationship
between feminist theory and practice? This
course focuses on these and related philosophical
questions. Special attention will be paid to the
interrelationship of gender, class and race. This
course also fulfills a requirement in the Women's
Studies Concentration.
PHIL 220 3 cr.
(P) Ancient Philosophy
The Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle and their
immediate successors. Special emphasis on the
theory of knowledge, the metaphysics and philosophical
anthropology of Plato and Aristotle.
PHIL 221 3 cr.
(P) Medieval Philosophy
A survey of philosophy in the European Middle
Ages, including the connections between
medieval philosophy and its classical and Christian
sources; questions concerning nature/grace,
reason/faith, theology/philosophy, and the
nature and ethos of scholasticism.
PHIL 222 3 cr.
(P) Modern Philosophy I
Machiavelli and the break with the Ancients.
Modern political thought and social contract.
Hobbes with an appeal to the passions. Locke
and theoretician of capitalism. Rousseau and the
crisis of modern political thought. Foundations
of modern epistemology. Descartes and the search
for absolute certainty. Hume and empiricism.
PHIL 223 3 cr.
(P) Modern Philosophy II
The development of idealism in the thought of
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, with its
influence on Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and
Kierkegaard. Special consideration of dialectical
thinking in its resolution of the antitheses of
reality and appearance, freedom and necessity,
infinite and finite, and faith and knowledge.
PHIL 224 3 cr.
(P) Foundations of Twentieth-Century
Philosophy
A study of some of the key figures that have set
the tone for the 20th-century philosophy. Buber,
Arts and Sciences/Philosophy 173
Marx, Kierkegaard, Hume and Russell are studied
in detail.
PHIL 225 3 cr.
(P,D) Asian Philosophy
This course will introduce students to the various
systems of Asian philosophy including Hinduism,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and
Shinto with special emphasis on the metaphysics,
ethics and political philosophy of these systems.
PHIL 226 3 cr.
(P,D) Chinese Philosophy
An introduction to the classical Chinese understanding.
The course examines Daoist teachings
and vision, the thought of Confucius and Buddhism.
PHIL 227 3 cr.
(P) Political Philosophy
Philosophical and ethical analysis of the social
nature of man with emphasis on modern social
questions. Ethics of the family, of nation and of
communities. International ethics.
PHIL 229 3 cr.
(P,D) Philosophy of Religion
An investigation of the main topics in philosophers’
reflections on religion: arguments for the
existence of God; meaningful statements about
God; assessment of religious experience; notions
of miracle, revelation, and immortality; the
problem of evil; relations between religious faith
and reason; religion and ethics. Readings from
classical and contemporary authors.
PHIL 231 3 cr.
(P) Philosophy of Women
This course reviews the philosophies of woman
in western thought from Plato and Aristotle to
Nietzche, Schopenhauer, and Beauvoir. It concludes
with an interdisciplinary selection of readings,
to be addressed philosophically, on women
in art, anthropology, literature, politics, theology,
psychology, etc.
PHIL 232 3 cr.
Idea of a University
An investigation of the philosophy of a liberal
education, using John Henry Newman’s Idea of a
University as a tool.
PHIL 234 3 cr.
(P) Existentialism
A critical study of selected works of Kierkegaard,
Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, with special emphasis
on the existentialist themes of selfhood, freedom,
dread, responsibility, temporality, body,