PHIL-120 Philosophical Perspectives on the Self

What is a self? Does each person have one? Does each person have only one? How is the self related to the soul? Is it unchanging or in constant flux? What is the relationship between the self and the body? Examination of personal identity, the self and the soul as these topics are addressed in traditional philosophical texts, literature and the natural and behavioral sciences.

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

(Proseminar, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Notes

Open to first years and sophomores in the spring; open only to first years in the fall.