Perspectives on Western Culture II/Perspectives II

3 credits

Freshmen only This course pursues the enduring and foundational questions of life into the modern world. It considers the new and renewed understandings of faith, reason, justice, nature and the human person that emerge in the works of writers such as Machiavelli, Descartes, Luther, Rousseau, and Nietzsche. Modern perspectives will be appraised in light of the pre-modern perspectives encountered in the first semester of the course, allowing students to consider important contemporary questions in more attentive, reflective and responsible ways. Satisfies Core requirement for: Philosophy