PHI 201 Introduction to Western Philosophy
This course will explore the main branches of philosophy through the writings of western philosophers. The works of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Marx, Mill and more, will be used as a springboard for critical thought about the basic questions facing humanity. Epistemology, the study of knowledge, metaphysics, the study of reality, and ethics, the study of proper human interaction, will be examined through the texts of the philosophers who wrote about them.