PHL 31300 Modern Philosophy
(GE-Phl-Rel) This course is an investigation of the original texts of the major philosophers of the Enlightenment-rationalists and empiricists-tracing the emergence of modern science, the great political revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries and rising romanticism of the early 19th century. Emphasis is on the works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel. Only original sources are used.
Credits
3
Offered
Fall semester of odd numbered years.