PH316 Metaphysics

In this course we will study the most fundamental principles of reality. We will study aspects of being in general-such as causation, substance, parts, essence, modality, identity, persistence, and teleology-and then investigate whether beings require God as their cause. Philosophers discussed may include the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Locke, and Kant as well as contemporary analytic, continental, and scholastic philsophers.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PH200W [minimum grade = D-] and PH305 [minimum grade = D-] or PO211 [minimum grade = D-] and PO212 [minimum grade = D-] and PH305 [minimum grade = D-] or HO206 [minimum grade = D-]