tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74114497191357190782024-02-20T10:48:14.742-05:00Prof PiperHenry Piperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17865375903237009333noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7411449719135719078.post-66922718454528847052012-10-08T18:07:00.007-04:002023-02-07T14:28:48.857-05:00 Big Questions, to be sure<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A History of Philosophy from Socrates to Sartre</b></div>
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<u>Introduction</u> <br />
Distinguishing Science, Philosophy and Religion</div>
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<u>Knowledge and Reality</u></div>
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I.<span> </span>How do we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Know</i> that 2+3=5?:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plato’s Theories of Recollection and Reality</div>
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II.<span> </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What Is the Meaning of Being?: Aristotle’s Response to Plato <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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III.<span> </span>Descartes’s <i>Meditations</i> I and II: Can we Really <i>Know</i> Anything, or is Everything Doubtful?</div>
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IV.<span> </span>Is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Matter</i> All that Is? The Materialism of Hobbes</div>
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V.<span> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">The Evil of Inequality</span>: Rousseau Responds to Hobbes</div>
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VI.<span> </span>Does Physical Matter Exist?: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:city></st1:place>’s “Immaterialism”</div>
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VII.<span> </span>The Empiricism of David Hume: The End of Metaphysics?</div>
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VIII.<span> </span>Kant’s Response to Hume: a Transcendental Philosophy</div>
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IX.<span> </span>Heidegger: Retrieving the Meaning of Philosophy</div>
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<u>Human Nature and Freedom</u></div>
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X.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Freud: Psyche and Civilization</div>
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XI.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Erich Fromm Responds to Freud: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Art of Loving</i> </div>
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XII.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Meaning of Freedom: Augustine’s “Two Wills”</div>
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XIII.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Philosophy of Freedom: Sartre’s “Atheistic Existentialism”</div>
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XIV.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wisdom By Example: The Life and Death of Socrates</div>
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<u>On Ethics </u></div>
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Introduction: The Issues of Ethics and Confronting Ethical Relativism</div>
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XV.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mill: The Utility of Utilitarianism<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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XVI.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kant: Morality as Motivation, and Human Autonomy as Highest Good</div>
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<u>The Existence of God</u></div>
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XVII.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can We Prove that God Exists?: Anselm’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proslogion</i> </div>
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XVIII.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finding God in the World: Thomas Aquinas<br />
XIX. Descartes <i>Meditations</i> III-VI: the Proof of the Existence of God and of Corporeal Things</div>
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<u>Epilogue</u><br />
The Theory of Evolution: Do Science and Religion Really Have Anything to Fight Over?</div>
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