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Course Info for PHIL - 281 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2839 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: 35 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 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.