Table of Contents - Hartwick College

150 Topics in Philosophy (3 credits) A course with varying content
aimed to introduce perennial themes and problems in philosophy. The
topic will be announced in advance each time the course is offered.
201 Classics of Philosophy (3 credits) An introduction to the methods,
concepts, and aims of philosophical inquiry through critical study of
Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume (MWE) or (MWL)
227 Classical Political Ideas (4 credits) (same as Posc 227) (3 credits)
Students investigate the ideas that shaped and emerged out of premodern
political life, including arguments about the nature of justice and
of political virtue. Authors may include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca,
Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, and others. Prerequisite: Posc 101 or 111,
or 107 or any Philosophy course. Offered alternate years. (MWE) or
(WHS)
228 Philosophy of History (3 credits) Analysis of history as thinking
and writing about the past and its influence on the present Hegel, Marx,
Nietzsche, and others. (MWL)
236 Logic (3 credits) Principles of deductive inference; traditional
syllogistic and basic modern symbolic logic. (MLC)
247 Modern Political Ideas (3 credits) (same as Posc 247) Students
investigate key political ideas of modernity, including arguments over the
legitimacy of revolution and over the nature and scope of individual
rights. Authors may include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft,
Marx, Nietzsche, Dewey, Arendt, Fanon, Gandhi, and others. Prerequisite:
Posc 101 or 111, or 107 or any Philosophy course. Offered alternate years.
(MWL) or (WHS) or (SBA)
249 Existentialism (3 credits) Critical reading and discussion of
selected works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and others. (MWL)
261 Philosophy in Literature (3 credits) (W) Philosophical questions
concerning being self, and choice will be explored in selected novels of
authors such as Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Hesse, Camus, and Sartre. (MWL)
271 Values and Society (3 credits) A critical study of philosophical
problems concerning friendship, justice, liberty, freedom, the common
good, persons and other social values. (MWE) or (MWL)
281 Ancient Philosophy (4 credits) The Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato,
and Aristotle. Prerequisite: at least one college course in philosophy; Phil
201 is recommended. (MWE)
283 Modern Philosophy (4 credits) 17th and 18th century philosophy;
Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
Prerequisite: at least one college course in philosophy; Phil 201 is
recommended. (MWL)
332 Philosophy of Religion (3 credits) What is religion? Is there a
God? What is the value of religious experience? Is it possible to be
religious without being superstitious? Answers to these and related
questions will be examined in the analytical manner appropriate to
philosophy.
336 Ethics (3 credits) Critical study of the moral theories of major
philosophers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Prerequisite: at least
one college course in philosophy.
337 Philosophy of Art (3 credits) Analysis of various points of view on
such topics as the definition of art; aesthetic experience; the form, matter
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