Philosophy Literature

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The course will address traditional philosophy from the classical tradition to the present, looking at how concerns about nature, truth, morality, war, knowledge, beauty, existence, being, spirit, the world, God and the afterlife shape our understanding of world literature and film. Special attention will be given to the traditions of philosophical idealism, stoicism, hedonism, rationalism, empiricism, skepticism, world religions (from Asia, the Middle East, and the West), mysticism, empiricism, phenomenology, mathematics/ logical positivism, pragmatism, existentialism, objectivism, biopolitics, necropolitics as well as critical conversations about the history of science, the study of language, political theory and action, and theories of justice