PHI 3345 From Modern to Postmodern Philosophy
The development of Western philosophy from the 17th to the early 20th century. Exploration of the contrast between empiricism (Locke, Hume) and rationalism (Spinoza, Leibniz, Wolff) as a background to Kant’s “Copernican revolution.” In-depth study of Kant’s transcendental idealism, followed by a consideration of German Idealism—in particular, Hegel—as a response to Kant’s critique of metaphysics. The rejection of German Idealism by figures such as Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. The early Heidegger’s attempt to revive the question of Being phenomenologically.
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