What are your thoughts on a course entitled "Philosophy and Literature"?

Question

Below, I've provided a description of a (phil) course I'm considering taking this upcoming term. I was hoping you could provide some perspective as to what you think the course will really offer and what I can expect to get out of it. (I have my own ideas, but I'm interested in how other people might understand such a course description.) If you've taken a class of this nature, please feel free to share your experience with me. I'm an eng/phil double major so you can see why I might find this class interesting ...

Look forward to your answers!

Philosophy and Literature -
Philosophical issues in works of literature or arising from theories of literary interpretation. Topics include issues relating to relativism, the nature of morality, free will, personal identity, the nature of the emotions.

Answer 1

It sounds like a worthy course to take. When choosing a course interest is the key. Since you are a Philosophy & English Double Major, the course, "Philosophy & Literature," will probably provide you an intellectually stimulating and rewarding experience, because the course topic is right at the intersection of your majors.

I once took a contemporary political theory course on human nature, and literature. It was an interesting course, and among the best courses I have ever taken. I had to read utopia/dystopia novels including 1984, We, Brave New World, Utopia, Shakespeare's King Lear, other books, and plenty of philosophical articles. It was a course that required a lot of reading, even more than the average philosophy course, but it was worth my time and effort.

Probably the skills the course "Philosophy and Literature" will test the most will be evaluative and written communication skills. The course most likely will require reading some literature, writing evaluative and argumentative essays, and it will test your capacity to think flexibly (to carefully consider material from two or more fields), and creatively engage the texts. It is an interdisciplinary course and should provide a nice break from the typical course that focuses within one field. Since the topics are interesting ones and relevant to your knowledge background, it may be easier for you to think creatively in this course, and you may even enjoy your writing experience.

Answer 2

Sounds like a more-fun-than-usual exercise in approaching some popular basic topics of philosophy and critiquing subtle arguments. I imagine it could be mind-opening in the way regular phil courses aren't, and help you learn to apply phil outside the usual tailchase. I hope the course is in the Phil department, otherwise it's probably some fluff you'll find annoyingly simple as a phil student - or at least, it'll be dumbed down for non-phil students.

Answer 3

technological wisdom is a philosophy, or a relatives of appropriate philosophies extra accurately, or theories imagined to be real -- in spite of the incontrovertible fact which you go with to assert it. Scientism is dogmatic compliment of technological wisdom (in spite of that includes for a individual), usually observed via hand-waving dismissal of objections to their dogmas via the extra careful and much less brainwashed Philosophers. Philosophy has had to combat off Scientism on the single hand and Blind faith (a phenomenon antagonistic to serious theory practiced via some yet not all religious human beings) on the different hand as assaults to serious thinking for over 2,500 years. some Scientists have even long gone so a procedures as to declare philosophy to be a hand-maiden to technological wisdom, which has been debunked maximum those days interior the background of philosophy with the failure of the Logical Positivist college. Philosophy gets on the foundational discussions that maximum individuals anticipate solutions to dogmatically. this accepted Philosophy gets at offering a manner of transforming into extra sensible judgments and cautioned judgements, whether the priority is Physics or underwater basket weaving, via offering a sensible concept of reality, via flagging elementary errors, and via offering the final description of an unbaised serious thinking commencing component. all of us make dogmatic assumptions approximately reality, theory, actuality, and data that a Philosoper tries to get in the back of, take care of, and ultimately advance.

Answer 4

Lordeelordeelordee. I dunno.

Probably worth taking the course if you're at that phase of existence where you can accept the processes without accepting the words and their meaning.

Answer 5

mixed thoughts,there are good points as well as negative points too.