PHIL-101 Introduction to Philosophy
This course is a thematic and historical study of the basic problems and methods of philosophical inquiry. This semester we will be concentrating on the work of such major thinkers as: Plato (Classical Realism), Seneca (Stoic Virtue), David Hume (Modern Empiricism and Philosophy of Religion), and Existentialism (Camus, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre). Topics of discussion include: the nature of philosophy; the nature and limits of human knowledge; the scope and limits of human freedom; the nature of the good life; and the meaning and value of human existence. The course may partially fulfill the General Education Curricular Commons (GECC) Liberal Arts Concentration requirement.