Humanities and Philosophy Courses with Peter Hudis

Humanities 122: Contemporary Culture and the Arts

This course takes up the development of culture and the arts in Latin America, Africa and China from 1960 to the present. We will explore the role of culture, art and philosophy in an increasingly globalized world by taking up thinkers like Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Enrique Dussell, Liu Binyan and Wang Roushui, and explore literary works by Aime Cesaire, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Ngugi Wa'Tiongo, Wole Soyinka, Bao Dei, and others. We will also discuss cultural hybridity as expressed in music and film.

Humanities 127: Introduction to Philosophy

What do mean by thinking? How is thinking different from the accumulation of factual knowledge of the recitation of received truths? What does it mean to think critically, and why is thinking critically of tremendous important in light of the problems we face today? This course will examine these questions by exploring the works of some of the most important Western philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Marx. We will also discuss contemporary philosophic approaches to questions of race and gender.

Philosophy 106: Ethics

This course consists of a close textual reading of some of the major works in ethical philosophy. Topics covered will include what constitutes a good life; the role of power and authority in social relations; the problem of alienation in the modern world; and the possibility of reconciling individual freedom with social responsibility. We still study Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Hobbes' Leviathan, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, and Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

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