13 courses with the subject PHI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course trains students to craft compelling, publicly accessible arguments on how to solve pressing contemporary challenges in ethical ways. It also introduces students to the basic practices of professional comportment. Prerequisite: professor’s permission.
An exploration of the philosophies and wisdom teachings of Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism, three global traditions that were born or shaped in China. Students will investigate the historical and cultural contexts of these philosophies and examine how these traditions keep on influencing the larger world today. This course meets the requirement of the “Cultivating Character for a Fulfilling Life” general education curriculum for Cultural Contexts. Cross-listed as REL 242.
In this course students investigate the development of the American mind, looking at how American artists, 214 Mars Hill University Academic Catalog 2026-27
In this course students read and investigate the philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, and others, discovering the roots of the western intellectual tradition.
Occasional or experimental courses offered due to particular student or faculty interest.
This course is an exploration of the ways in which ethical theory from the western tradition can inform serious issues and problems in business and non-profit organizations. Conversely, the course will explore ways in which actual situations and contexts of case studies from business and non-profit organizations challenge and shape ethical theory. Cross-listed as BA 330.
Covers selected topics and key philosophers from the 17th to 20th centuries, including Continental Rationalism (Descartes) and British Empiricism (Hobbes and Locke), Kant and 19th century responses (Kierkegaard and Nietzche), and 20th century movements including existentialism and phenomenology; process and feminist philosophy; deconstruction and post-modernism; issues concerning language and science.
This course presents the philosophical investigation of religion. Topics include: the nature of religious language; the existence of God; reason, revelation, and faith; the problems of evil, miracles and prayer, and immortality.
What makes a government democratic? What makes a democratic government just? This course introduces students to the moral debates regarding the nature of democratic legitimacy. These debates center on the definition and prioritization of a few key values: representation, self government, freedom, and
Disciplinary capstone seminar focusing on original research and writing by students, with the focus on textual or biblical, historical, and philosophical or theological studies. Cross-listed as REL 450. Prerequisite: senior status. Fulfills the general education capstone requirement for majors.
Independent readings directed by a member of the program faculty.
An individual program of reading and research directed by a member of the program faculty and approved by the Curriculum Committee of the college. Fulfills the general education Capstone requirement for majors. Mars Hill University Academic Catalog 2026-27 215
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