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 | | During this course, students will learn about the history of Western philosophy from the earliest period through the sixteenth century, about philosophers and their general cultural milieu, and about the formation of the classical world view and accommodation of this world picture to requirements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. |
 | | In this course, a historical introduction to the Western philosophical tradition, students closely examine classic and contemporary texts on the nature of reality, truth, morality, goodness, and justice; the possibility of knowledge; faith, reason, and the existence of God; and the issue of freedom and determinism. |
 | | This course explores the contribution of religion to Western civilization, the eastern Mediterranean roots of Western religions, the emergence of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world, the rise of Islam, the mature religious synthesis of Medieval Europe, and modern secularism’s challenge to this tradition. |
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