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Description: MCCCD Approval: 11-23-2004 |
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PHI247
2007 Spring - 9999 |
LEC 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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Introduction
to Irish Philosophy |
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Historical
survey of the philosophical tradition of Ireland from the Middle Ages to the
present. Prerequisites: None. Course
Attribute(s): General Education Designation: Global
Awareness - [G] General
Education Designation: Humanities and Fine Arts - [HU] |
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MCCCD
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PHI247 2007
Spring - 9999 |
Introduction to Irish Philosophy |
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Explain the significance of Augustinus's
distinction between God's creation and God's governance. (I) |
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Explain the relationship between transcendence and
immanence in Eriugena's metaphysics. (I) |
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Identify empirical and non-empirical elements in Irish
Enlightenment thought. (II) |
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Explain John Toland's
anti-clericalism and his emphasis on individual autonomy. (II) |
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Compare and contrast Hutcheson's understanding of beauty
with the relativistic view held by many people today. (II) |
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Compare and contrast Hutcheson's altruism with Hobbes's
"egoism." (II) |
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Compare and contrast the utilitarian ethics of Mill,
Thompson, and Wheeler. (III) |
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Identify the
roles that the arts serve in the philosophies of Peter Browne, Henry MacCormac, Iris Murdoch, Richard Kearney, and John O'Donohue. (II, III, IV, V) |
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Identify psychoanalytic dimensions in the thought of John
Wisdom and Richard Kearney. (IV, V) |
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Compare and contrast the opposition to method in Maurice
Drury and John O'Donohue. (IV, V) |
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Compare and
contrast the treatments of the self-other distinction in the thought of
Maurice Drury and Richard Kearney. (IV, V) |
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Explain the relationships between Irish philosophy,
history, and culture. (VI) |
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MCCCD
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PHI247 2007
Spring - 9999 |
Introduction to Irish Philosophy |
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I. Medieval Irish
Metaphysics A. Augustinus's
ontology of miracles B. Eriugena's
neo-Platonic metaphysics of divine self-creation II. The Irish Enlightenment
A. John Toland's
anti-clericalism B. Peter Browne's
analogical theology C. William King's theodicy D. George Berkeley's
idealism E. Francis Hutcheson's
moral and aesthetic sensationism III. The Irish Nineteenth
Century A. William Thompson's
radical utilitarianism B. Anna Doyle Wheeler's
feminist utilitarianism C. Henry MacCormac's socialist holism D. Frances Power Cobb's
moral anti-Darwinism IV. The Irish Twentieth
Century A. J.O. Wisdom's
psychoanalysis of metaphysics B. Maurice O'C. Drury's
irreducible individualism C. Iris Murdoch's ethics of
attention V. The Irish Present A. Richard Kearney's ethics
of Other within Self B. John O'Donohue's
spiritualism of the anam cara
VI. What is "Irish
Philosophy"? |