2008-09 Catalog - Saint Mary's College of California

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Philosophy CurriculumMajor RequirementsLower DivisionPhilosophy 10 or 11 is required of all students.Upper DivisionThe major in philosophy requires eight upper-division courses. The130-131 and 135-136 sequences are required of all majors. In addition,all majors elect at least one course from Philosophical Topics: 108, 109,110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 133, 134, and from Authors/Schools: 160, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, and elect one further coursefrom either category or undertake an approved 197 Special Study or199 Honors course. In the senior year, candidates for the degree undertakean approved 196/198 Senior Thesis.Majors planning graduate study are advised to take French or German(for study in modern philosophy), Latin (for study in medieval philosophy),or Greek and Latin (for study in classical philosophy).Minor RequirementsThe minor in philosophy requires one lower (10 or 11), and four upperdivisioncourses (the 130–131 sequence or the 135–136 sequence,and one course from each of the categories, Philosophical Topics andAuthors/Schools).Prerequisite GradeAny course listed in this department with a prerequisite assumes a grade ofC– or better in the prerequisite course.C o u r s e sLower Division5 Practical LogicA course in the analysis and evaluation of everyday arguments. Recognitionof patterns of argumentation, fallacies, and ambiguities in English is stressed.This course aims primarily at refining and disciplining the student’s naturalability to think critically. May not be counted for major credit.10 Plato and Philosophical InquiryStudy of Plato’s Republic or of selected Platonic Dialogues with a view to suchquestions as: What is philosophy? What is the act of philosophical inquiry?What makes for a philosophical question, or for a philosophical answer?11 Aristotle and Philosophical MethodStudy of selected texts of Aristotle with a view to such questions as:What are the objects, and associated methods, of philosophical inquiry?Are there distinct kinds or divisions of philosophy? In what sense orsenses may philosophy qualify as science?Upper DivisionPhilosophical Topics110 Philosophy of ReligionA phenomenological study of man which seeks to discover the essentialstructure of the human phenomenon of religion through its variousmanifestations. Consideration is given to the ultimate meaning of humanexistence and those common principles rooted in man which give riseto religion. The orientation of the course is philosophical and considersreligion as involving both man and God.111 Philosophy of ArtAn analysis of doing and making, of truth, good, beauty, the visible andinvisible, of figure and finality, as these reveal the intellectual and spiritualuniverses disclosed by painters, sculptors, poets, etc.113 Contemporary Problems in EthicsA study of the ethical aspects of such contemporary problems as personalfreedom, personal rights, civil disobedience, and situation ethics.114 Philosophy of LawA study of the philosophy of law from Sophocles’ Antigone throughthe great thinkers of the Middle Ages, giving particular attention to thenotion of natural law of Thomas Aquinas.115 Modern Legal PhilosophyThe philosophy of law from Thomas Hobbes and John Locke to Marxismand contemporary legal positivism.145
Curriculum Philosophy116 Political PhilosophyAn investigation of the philosophical development of the notion of the“state,” “man’s relationship to the state,” and “forms of government.”117 Philosophy of NatureRaises the question of the possibility of a knowledge of nature whichis independent of the quantification and mathematical methods of the“physical” sciences.118 Theory of KnowledgeA study of the human approach to the nature of being, through ananalysis of the works of Sartre, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Aristotle, andThomas Aquinas. Particular emphasis on the philosophical method andthe practice of reflection.130 –131 EthicsAn investigation of the difference between good and evil and betweenvirtue and vice; of the relationship of virtue to choice, to knowledge, topower, to pleasure, to happiness; of the relationship of the humanperson to God, to nature, to society; of the relationship of responsibilityto freedom and necessity. Texts (130) by Plato and Aristotle, the Bible,and Aquinas and (131) by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel,Kant and Nietzsche. Philosophy 130 is prerequisite to 131.133 The Art of LogicA study of classical logic with reference to primary texts. Logic is approachedas the art of attending to and refining the acts of the discursive intellect —definition, predication, and argument (reasoning — in its coming to know).Among the major topics considered: signification, categories, predicables,categorical and complex propositions, syllogistic, induction, formal andinformal fallacies.135 –136 MetaphysicsA study, through close reading, discussing and writing, of “metaphysical”texts of (135) Plato and Aristotle (and, through them, of Parmenides andHeraclitus); and (136) of Thomas Aquinas and Hegel (with some attention,as time permits and inclination prompts, to texts of one or moreof the following: Descartes, Kant, Wittgenstein, Heidegger).Philosophy 135 is prerequisite to 136.Authors and Schools160 A Critical Reading of the Principal Worksof a Single Major Author or School of PhilosophySuch philosophers will be chosen as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas,Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. A “school” of philosophy,e.g., Empiricism, Rationalism, Idealism, is offered from time to time. Maybe repeated for credit as content varies.170 Contemporary PhilosophyA study of a major philosopher or “school” of the contemporary period.Course may be repeated for credit as content varies.172 ExistentialismReadings and discussions of some of the principal existential philosophersof the Continent, such as Kierkegaard, Camus, Sartre and Heidegger.174 Greek PhilosophyA study of the full range of Greek philosophical thought from its pre-Socraticorigins to its Neoplatonic conclusion. Platonic, Aristotelian, Cynic, Sceptic,Stoic and Epicurean Schools are examined through their texts, in historicalcontext and evolution.176 Medieval PhilosophersA consideration of the metaphysical and world view of major philosophersof the medieval period such as Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.Course may be repeated for credit as content varies.178 Renaissance PhilosophersA survey of major thinkers and artists from early 14th century to 16thcentury. The concern will be with questions of God, man, and the world,and the contrast of the world of the Middle Ages and the beginning ofthe modern world.196 Senior Thesis /198 Senior Thesis — HonorsCandidates for the degree arrange, in the fall or spring of the senior year,a program of reading and research on a topic in modern/contemporaryphilosophy under a department director, and compose a lengthy SeniorThesis, which is presented publicly at a departmental meeting. Directionsfor proposing the thesis and a catalog of library resources are availablefrom the chair.197 Special StudyAn independent study or research course for students whose needs arenot met by the regular course offerings of the department. Permission ofthe department chair and instructor required.199 Special Study — HonorsAn independent study or research course for upper-division majorswith a B average in philosophy. Permission of the department chair andinstructor required.146
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