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Sep 27, 2024
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PH109 Philosophical Perspectives on Our World4 cr. credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the discipline of philosophy. Inquiry into philosophy will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well-Being by an examination of both classical and contemporary philosophical texts with the goal of beginning a philosophical conversation. We will use this conversation to explore the questions of how men and women understand their place in the world, and their relationships to each other guided by our authors. A common insight we will explore is that the quality of an individual person’s life is profoundly affected by the political and moral health of the community wherein he or she lives. A community that recognizes the dignity and autonomy of its members lends to lead to a fuller and more complete life for its citizens than a community where its members are marginalized and exploited.
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