Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionUC/CSU This course introduces an analysis of philosophical ideas as expressed in both philosophical treatises and great works of literature. Initially, we will explore the relationship between philosophy and literature, including any difference between philosophical writing and literary writing, what Plato says about art and truth, and the quarrel between philosophy and poetry. The material will examine issues of truth and rhetoric and what makes philosophical writing unique, and how philosophical ideas are expressed in mythical and religious texts, stories, novels, plays and poems. These and other topics will be addressed in this class, as well as some traditional philosophical questions that arise in classical and popular works of literature. These issues include the concept of the self, the problem of evil, free will and determinism, ethics and the good life, the nature of reality and questions of knowledge, appearance and reality. (GE Area � IGETC: 3B; CSU GE: C2) PHOTOGRAPHY (PHOTO) 