Great Works of Philosophy I

Each section of this writing-intensive course introduces students to at least two great works of world philosophy from the Ancient and Medieval Periods, such as Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods, Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, the Analects of Confucius, the Bhagavad Gita, and Augustine's Confessions. The chosen books, each a great work of world literature, expose students to the thought of at least two different cultures, religions, and historical periods, and exhibit at least two distinct literary forms (such as the dialogue, the poem, the confessional essay or meditation, and the analytic disquisition).