PHI 1010 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 3 credits

"G" Prerequisite: ENC 0020 or EAP 1695 or satisfactory score on the SPC placement test. This introductory survey of the perennial issues in human existence provides a rich evaluation of life's meaning. A critical examination is conducted of the fundamental assumptions, terminology, and schools of thought addressing the issues in metaphysics, epistemology and axiology (ethics, aesthetics, and theology.) Discussion as well as lecture will focus on both classical and contemporary philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and de Beauvoir. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both PHI 1010 and PHI 1010H. 47 contact hours.