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Undergraduate Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHIL 330 - (P) Philosophy of Crowds and Violence

3 cr.


(Prerequisites: PHIL 120  and PHIL 210 )

At trial Socrates asserts ‘friendship with wisdom’ in the face of an angry crowd, making the question of crowds and violence a founding one for philosophy.  PHIL 330 revisits this question after a century of novel self-assertions by crowds as agents of history armed, finally, with weaponized social media.