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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by lcooper · returned 6 results
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IDSC 251 Windows on the Good Life 2 credits
Human beings are always and everywhere challenged by the question: What should I do to spend my mortal time well? One way to approach this ultimate challenge is to explore some of the great cultural products of our civilization–works that are a delight to read for their wisdom and artfulness. This series of two-credit courses will explore a philosophical dialogue of Plato in the fall, a work from the Bible in the winter, and a pair of plays by Shakespeare in the spring. The course can be repeated for credit throughout the year and in subsequent years.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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IDSC 251.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
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IDSC 251.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
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IDSC 251.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
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IDSC 251.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
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POSC 160 Political Philosophy 6 credits
Introduction to ancient and modern political philosophy. We will investigate several fundamentally different approaches to the basic questions of politics–questions concerning the character of political life, the possibilities and limits of politics, justice, and the good society–and the philosophic presuppositions (concerning human nature and human flourishing) that underlie these, and all, political questions.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 160.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Political Philosophy and the Art of Reading 3 credits
Political philosophy inquires into basic matters that most of us take for granted: what is good and bad? what is just and unjust? and why? These inquiries can threaten, or be perceived as threatening, our most dearly held beliefs and all that rests on these beliefs. Political philosophers have often employed arts of writing aimed at veiling their most radical thoughts from all but their most careful and persistent readers. In this course we will study these arts of writing and the arts of reading that they demand of us. We will learn not only about various methods and techniques but also about a philosophic education.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 232.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 250 Kings, Tyrants, Philosophers: Plato’s Republic 6 credits
In this course we will read Plato’s Republic, perhaps the greatest and surely the most important work of political philosophy ever written. What are the deepest needs and the most powerful longings of human nature? Can they be fulfilled, and, if so, how? What are the deepest needs of society, and can they be fulfilled? What is the relation between individual happiness and societal well-being? Are they compatible or in conflict with one another? And where they are in conflict, what does justice require that we do? The Republic explores these questions in an imaginative and unforgettable way.
Crosslisted with POSC 350
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 250.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 254 Freedom, Excellence, Happiness: Aristotle’s Ethics 6 credits
What does it mean to be morally excellent? To be politically excellent? To be intellectually and spiritually excellent? Are these things mutually compatible? Do they lie within the reach of everyone? And what is the relation between excellence and pleasure? Between excellence and happiness? Aristotle addresses these questions in intricate and illuminating detail in the Nicomachean Ethics, which we will study in this course. The Ethics is more accessible than some of Aristotle’s other works. But it is also a multifaceted and multi-layered book, and one that reveals more to those who study it with care.
Cross-listed with POSC 354
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 400 Integrative Exercise 1-6 credits
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024