Social Foundations I
T03.0101.087, T03.0101.088, T03.0101.089
Credits: 4
Professor(s): Mr. H. Segal, Dr. C. Noel & Dr A. Lever
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This course introduces the primary questions of philosophic, religious, political, social, and historical discourse. The texts raise the enduring questions of the relationships among the individual person, the environment, the community, the polity, and the divine. Special attention is paid in this course to the development of analytical techniques and the language of critical discussion. Texts are chosen from among the major writers of antiquity and the Middle Ages, such as Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Cicero, Seneca, St. Augustine, Einhard, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and from historical texts like the Koran and the Bible.