PHL 151 - Philosophical Foundations of the World’s Religions.

(Formerly 251). (3) GS.

Concepts and beliefs fundamental to the world’s great religions. Nature of reality, the divine, the self, the soul, free will, evil, happiness, human society, and one’s place in the world. Views of theism in the religions of the ancient Middle East through modern Western religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; concepts of sublimity and enlightenment in the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Shintoism; animistic and shamanic beliefs in native American religions and the religions of Africa, South American and the South Pacific.