College of Letters Philosophy and Ethics Major Overview

This major mainlyconducts research of ancient Greek philosophy, modernphilosophy,social philosophy after Hegel, phenomenology, existentialthought, andWest-European philosophy such as modern French thought. Wedeal withcontemporary issues including bioethics, ecological issues,issues onsocial norm. In addition, we offer courses of intensivereading ofbooks of philosophy in English, German, and French.This major ismaking effort to enable students to approach philosophicalissuesbased on each student’s motivation and to nurture their logicalandscientific thinking, which enables them to identify the natureofthings, through conducting researches. Philosophy research is tocallcommon sense into question and is a thrilling intellectualadventurewith a lot of discoveries and sensation. You will have a lotofinteresting experiences in this major.

Careerprospects

The graduates with rich humanity and logical and scientific thinking are playing anactive part in various companies and the field of education.

Typicalspecialized courses

Introductory Seminar in Philosophy

Each student shouldhave motivation to study philosophy. This course connects eachmotivation with academic issues to enable them to continue academicresearch with steady purposes.

Outline ofPhilosophy I and II

We guide how to readbooks of philosophy through introducing basic themes on philosophy tostudents.

History of Philosophy

In this course welearn ancient Greek philosophy, medieval philosophy, modernphilosophy from the Renaissance to Hegel, and contemporary philosophy includes Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida.

Selected Problemsin Philosophy

We select somespecialized themes and research them intensively.

Outline of Ethics I and II

We introduce Westernethical thought to students. We think about issues of applied ethicssuch as bioethics and environment ethics.

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