Great Debates

This reading group is for students who have taken at least one year of introductory logic and/or philosophy. In a round-table format, students read and discuss the most famous arguments from the history of philosophy, including short texts by Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, and Hume. Questions involve the philosophical underpinnings of empirical science, the nature of good and evil, the existence of God, the relationship between the individual and government, and philosophical arguments for life after death.