| source Stanford (X) |
level |
department Introduction to the Humanities (X) |
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First of a twoquarter sequence. Great religious, philosophical, and literary texts that have addressed timeless questions about human identity and the meaning of human life. Focus is on the epic tradition in the ancient and classical worlds. Compares conceptions of the afterlife. How traditions about the afterlife are created.
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Second of a two quarter sequence. Great religious, philosophical, and literary texts that have addressed timeless questions about human identity and the meaning of human life. Focus is on the transformations or abandonment of the epic tradition in modernity. Compares conceptions of the afterlife. How traditions about the afterlife are appropriated. The diminished importance of the dead and increased emphasis on the power of the living in literary genres.
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First in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The authority of the father, care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
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Second in a two quarter sequence. The family in its enduring role in shaping members of a community and citizens of society. The Chinese family as a case study. How family has been revolted against, broken up, critiqued, and transformed through social and political changes. The stern authority of the father, nourishing care of the mother, supportive or antagonistic relations of siblings, and the extension of these relations in kinship community and society. How notions of love, emotion, and gender play into the formation of the family and how family connects with interpersonal and social relations.
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First in a two quarter sequence. A humanistic perspective views science itself as an essential part of human culture and explores the many relationships between scientific activity and religion, philosophy, society, politics, and the arts. Exploration of these relationships from a philosophical point of view, across a large part of the development of Western science from ancient Greece and the medieval period, through the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, and up to recent times.
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Second in a two quarter sequence. A humanistic perspective views science itself as an essential part of human culture and explores the many relationships between scientific activity and religion, philosophy, society, politics, and the arts. Exploration of these relationships from a philosophical point of view, across a large part of the development of Western science from ancient Greece and the medieval period, through the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, and up to recent times.
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First in a two quarter sequence. The emergence of modernity from 1300 to the present. Demographic and religious transformations in Europe. The development of ideologies, social formations, and political institutions as they eventually crossed the Atlantic and were modified in the Americas. 20th-century shocks of social revolution and authoritarianism throughout Latin America. The creative/destructive tensions inherent in this long transformation.
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Second in a two quarter sequence. The emergence of modernity from 1300 to the present. Demographic and religious transformations in Europe. The development of ideologies, social formations, and political institutions as they eventually crossed the Atlantic and were modified in the Americas. 20th-century shocks of social revolution and authoritarianism throughout Latin America. The creative/destructive tensions inherent in this long transformation.
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