Critical & Historical Introduction to Philosophy
Dr. Eugene Selk
3 Semester Hours
4 papers, 3 exams
This is an introductory course in philosophy which focuses on philosophical problems concerning the human person. The approach of the course is a combination of historical and problems. The historical part of the course includes reading several philosophical classics. The problems part of the course covers the following: the relationship of man to the state, social justice, the mind-body problem, life after death, and the existence of God.
Texts: Plato. The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Crito, Phaedo. Trans. G.M.A. Hugh Tredennick; intro. Harold Tarrant. NY: Penguin, 1993. ISBN 0-140-44928-0
Plato. Plato: The Republic. Trans. Tom Griffith. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 052148443X.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Ed. David Bromwich & George Kateb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09610-0.
Camus, Albert. The Plague. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN 0-075-53649-8.