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Course Info for PHIL - 281 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3163 Title: Ancient Greek Philosophy Department: Philosophy
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 32 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, MC - AUD Instructor(s): Ewegen, Shane
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement
Course Description:
This course looks at the origins of western philosophy in the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Students will see how philosophy arose as a comprehensive search for wisdom, then developed into the “areas” of philosophy such as metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. This course fulfills part two of the writing intensive (WI) requirement for the Philosophy major.