Humanities and Philosophy Courses with Urban Thobe

Humanities 127: Introduction to Philosophy

The course will review some major issues in Western philosophy in the historical order of their occurrence. It will raise the question of existence and the existence and character of the world initially in terms of the deceptively simple ideas of the early Greek philosophers. As its second major concern, the course will follow the inquiry into the character of human knowledge and its relation to reality as it is answered by certain early, medieval and modern philosophers. Thirdly, it will bring up varieties of selected political systems as influenced by views of the character of the world and of human knowledge. It will also point out some of the implications for morality of certain of the examined views. The course will present these issues in lectures, readings of original sources and of a guiding text.

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