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• PHIL 212: Images of the Human Person

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Images of the human person in contemporary philosophy, literature, psychology, and religion, and an evaluation of these images as norms for human conduct and social policy. Particular attention may be given to images found in specific philosophical traditions, including existentialism, Marxism, behaviorism, and mysticism. FS: 12/05/2018. CL: 2020.
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• PHIL 213: Communicating Moral Issues

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Moral issues confronting men and women in contemporary society and the challenges of communicating effectively about them. Topics will vary but may include access to health care, euthanasia, abortion, same sex marriage and the moral and environmental consequences of eating animals. FS: 04/06/2016. CL: 2020.
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• PHIL 214: Science and Pseudo-Science

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Attempts to distinguish science from pseudo-science; inquiry into such cases as astrology, psychoanalysis, and parapsychology.
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• PHIL 301: Ancient Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  An introduction to the work of ancient philosophers, with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. CL: 2020.
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• PHIL 302: Grk & Rom Phil after Aristotle

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Problems such as hedonism, providence, belief and evidence, and mysticism, as they appear in the writings of Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Plotinus.
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• PHIL 303: History of Medieval Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  Major philosophical traditions in the Middle Ages.
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• PHIL 304: 17th & 18th Century Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  An introduction to Continental and British philosophy running roughly from Descartes through Kant.
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• PHIL 305: 19th & 20th Century Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  An introduction to Continental and British philosophy since Kant through study of the works of representative philosophers. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of Idealism, Marxism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy.
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• PHIL 310: American Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  The principal movements of philosophical thought from Colonial times to the present, with special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
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• PHIL 311: Existentialism

  3.00 Credits

  University of South Carolina-Columbia

  
  An introduction to existentialist themes in contemporary philosophy, literature, psychology, and religion. The writings of existentialists such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre, Buber, May, and Binswanger will be read and discussed.
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