PHIL

Classical

Subject

PHIL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2016-2017

Source

bcsmn.edu

Renaissance (2 credits) This course will continue to explore the discipline of philosophy through an examination of the thought of key medieval and Renaissance philosophers and theologians. Students will explore the medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology in its various forms, as expressed by thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Abelard, and Aquinas. Additionally, students will begin to wrestle with key questions of political philosophy in light of the historical developments in the West. Students will examine the divergent paths taken in the Renaissance and Reformation in terms of anthropocentrism and theocentrism. Finally, students will explore the unique contributions of early Enlightenment philosophers such as Descartes and Pascal.

Subject

PHIL

Type

course

Edition

2016-2017

Source

bcsmn.edu

Modern (4 credits) Building on the study in the previous course of the metaphysics and epistemology of Descartes’ Discourse on Method and the empiricism of Bacon, Galileo, and Newton, this course will analyze the development of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century and the variant courses it takes in France, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States. In particular, students will examine the ways in which the relationship between theology and philosophy was reformulated in different intellectual contexts and by different individual thinkers. Students will evaluate Enlightenment arguments defending autonomous course descriptions 87

Subject

PHIL

Type

course

Edition

2016-2017

Source

bcsmn.edu