INQ-110 | Formation of the Western Mind

Full Title: Cicero, Augustine and the Formation of the Western Mind

Topic Description:

In this course we read, discuss and work together on the critical interpretation in writing of classical texts from religion (Augustine) and philosophy (Cicero) that significantly shaped the Western (i.e. Latin) cultural tradition at its beginning. In the process we reflect on how contemporary thinkers (beginning with ourselves!) appropriate, develop or extend these classical stances in modern projects of learning, inquiry, practice and/or devotion. We inquire into the formation of the Western mind and its bearing in and on our emerging global civilization.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: January 2009