REL 19.03 Rethinking the Divine
Whether any gods exist; whether there is a divine power that created the world and/or controls what happens in it; whether a human being has a soul that is somehow connected to the divine: these were questions that puzzled intelligent people in ancient Greece and Rome just as they they puzzle people today. In this course, we study the efforts of a range of ancient authors to think through these problems in a way that seemed intellectually satisfying. We look also at what these same thinkers had to say about the origin of religious beliefs in human cultures and about how a thinking person will want to interact with the beliefs and practices of his/her own culture.
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CLST 10.01