Academic Catalog 2017-2018 
    
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Academic Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHL 288 - Skepticism East and West

Course Units: 1
(Not Offered this Academic Year) For as long as there have been philosophers engaged in passionate pursuit of knowledge, there have been skeptics critical of the entire enterprise.  Can we really know the Truth about anything?  For that matter, how important is it for us to know the Truth?  Skeptical thinkers have appeared in all times and cultures.  We will engage with three venerable texts: the Zhuangzi from ancient China, Nagarjuna’s writings on the Middle Way from ancient India, and the Outlines of Skepticism by Sextus Empiricus from ancient Greece.  Our goal is to put these authors into dialogue and then join in that dialogue. CC: HUM



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