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PHIL 411 - Aristotle

(3 units)
Intensive study of some of Aristotle’s writings, e.g., the Metaphysics, Physics, de Anima, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics.

Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of philosophy.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about a key philosophical work by Aristotle, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
2. explain and interpret some central ideas associated with Aristotle’s philosophy.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a work by Aristotle and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
4. show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in Aristotle’s philosophical work.


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