6 courses with the subject PHIL, 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.
*POL 220 U.S. Foreign Policy (3) *POL 230 International Norms and Institutions (3) *POL 250 Law, Justice and the Local Context (3) *PPX 371 Peace and Security in East Asia (3) *PPX 405-409 Topics in Politics and Peace Studies (3-4) *PPX 401 Human Rights and Dignity (4) *PPX 421 Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (4) *PPX 431 Political Reconciliation (4)
Students engage watershed questions of human knowing such as: how do we know? When can we know that someone is wrong regarding their knowledge claims? What is truth? Just how important is truth? Issues of perspective, context, social construction of knowledge and gender and cultural difference will be explored. Core: CW
Students encounter classical conceptions of ethics and morality articulated by Aristotle, Kant, Mill and the traditions of ethical virtue. The course will explore the relative importance of reason, character and good consequences in determining the right and the good. Prerequisite: PHIL 201 or permission of the instructor. Offered in alternate years Core: CW
*THEO 312 Topics in Christian
This course examines issues that arise from a tradition of philosophical reflection on the language and truth claims of religion. Specific readings vary from year to year but will most often include theological and postcolonial responses to the phenomenon of the secular. Offered in alternate years Core: CW
Source: Eastern Mennonite University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
