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Course Info for PHIL - 281 - 01, Fall 2023
Class number: 2379 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: 27 Available seats: 2
Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, MECC - 220 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.