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Introduction to Philosophy
A World-Historical Perspective
PHI 199
Morality, Reality, and the Meaning of Life
PHI 248
Philosophy and Popular Culture
PHI 280
19th Century Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche
PHI 388
20th Century Philosophy: Analytic v. Continental
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Hegel and Avatar
Final Exam Questions
Syllabus
1) Weeks 1, 2, 3: Between Duty and Desire: Morality in The Simpsons
Lecture 1: Morality in Homer, Bart, and Marge
Lecture 2: Willing the Maxim as a Universal Law
Lecture 3: Lisa Learns Tolerance
2) Weeks 3, 4, 5: From Illusion to Reality: The Matrix
of the Good Society
Lecture 4: The Matrix: There's Something Wrong with the World
Lecture 5: The Matrix: What is Reality?
Lecture 6: The Matrix: Realizing the Moral Ideal of the Highest Good
3) Week 6, 7: The Multidimensional Universe of Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Lecture 7: Multidimensional Universe of Buffy (1)
Lecture 8: Multidimensional Universe of Buffy (2)
4) Weeks 8, 9: Blinding the Eyes of Justice:
Woody Allen's Tale of Crime and Punishment
Lecture 9: Blinding the Eyes of Justice
5) Weeks 11, 12: Realizing the Highest Good: The Power of
Love in the Matrix Trilogy
Lecture 10: Realizing the Highest Good
Weeks 13, 14 Hegel's Philosophy of Nature and the Avatar of Spirit
Hegel and Avatar
Future reading
6) Dialectics of the Force in Star Wars
Lecture 11: Dialectics of the Force
7) Turning to the Dark Side: The Problem of Evil in Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Darth Vader
Lecture 12: The Problem of Evil
8) Faith with Reason: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Lecture 13: Faith with Reason
9) Hegel's Philosophy of Nature and Avatar
Lecture 14: Science and Nature
10) The Real Secret of The Da Vinci Code
Lecture 15: Real Secret of The Da Vinci Code
11) : The Platonic Wisdom of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Lecture 16: The Platonic Wisdom of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
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