PHIL 217 - Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy:The History of Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant

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William Paterson University of New Jersey

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Deals with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally with the following problems: the assimilation of science as faced by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz; the order of nature suggested by Newtonian science and its effect on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; natural theology in the Enlightenment; and the natural rights political philosophy of Locke and the British moralists. Prerequisite: PHIL 110

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wpunj.edu

Phone Number:

(973) 720-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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