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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | CSTSB217001 |
Course Title | The Problem of Evil |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Studies |
Instructor | Kuper,Charles Nestor |
Times and Days | TTh 02:25pm-03:45pm
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Room Location | TAYD |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2372 What is evil, and where does it come from? Ostensibly simple questions that demand good answers. In this course, we shall investigate how ancient authors grappled with the deeply human problems posed by our experiences of both natural and moral evils. Students will read a wide range of texts from Archaic Greece through the early Middle Ages, including drama, philosophy, legal speeches, religious texts, and commentaries. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to rethink their own understanding of this problem and will have the opportunity to consider a number of related thematic questions (e.g., “Why do bad things happen to good people; how can God exist if there is evil?”). Near the end of the course, we shall continue this conversation into the present, taking a closer look at some modern case-studies such as the Milgram experiment. The course includes a field trip to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Approach: Inquiry into the Past (IP), Writing Attentive;, ; . |
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