PHIL220 — Ideas on Drugs
Add to Personal Bookmarks Number of Ideas on Drugs emphasizes the use of critical analysis and honest scholarship to examine how the use of currently demonized and illegal drugs have influenced the history of ideas. What would the world look like without these drugs or the people who used them? Are there good drugs and evil drugs? Are drug-induced thoughts and ideas always suspect, or do they sometimes allow us to view the world through different or better lenses? Drugs declared dangerous and deadly by contemporary society have influenced many of the world’s greatest thinkers and their ideas, and rejecting them would mean the rejection of world history. The Bible, Sigmund Freud, and the Declaration of Independence might not have our interest without the drugs we call dangerous. We know that drugs have played various roles in our world because they work, but exactly what work do we expect them to do? (Spring) Three hours lecture each week. Three Credits. Three billable hours. Course
Prerequisites: ENGL101