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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Studies the major questions of seventeenth and eigh- teenth century thinkers, such as Descartes, Voltaire, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Rousseau.
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Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of seventeenth and eighteenth century ratio- nalism, focusing on the major rationalist thinkers, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Some central themes include metaphysics and the emergence of modern scientific rationality; the modern concept of nature; the relation of mind and body; the role of God in meta- physical and scientific systems; monism and pluralism.
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Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An introduction to the 'critical' philosophy of the Ger-man Enlightenment thinker, Immanuel Kant. Selections from his three primary works, Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgement are read to show the overarching nature of his critical phi- losophy. Focuses on key issues such as the meaning of 'transcendental,' 'critique,' the 'Copernican Revolutiand how these impact on modern tendencies in science as well as moral and aesthetic value theory.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An examination of Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy (ethics and philosophy of law), its place within his overall philosophy, and its place in modern ethics and natu- ral law theory. Topics include freedom as autonomy; rationality and morality; the relationship of morality and law, person, and state. Readings consist of Kant's principal writings in ethics and philosophy of law.
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Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Contemporary problems in the relation of polity and economy are explored by way of an intensive re-reading of Marx and several of his most insightful successors. By surveying the contemporary economic landscape through the lens of his work, students will judge how much of Marx is either vital or vitiated today. Same course as PS387.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of the philosophical writings of Marx and of the views on man and society presented by some con- temporary Marxist authors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. German idealism is the name usually given to the explo- sive series of developments in philosophy during the period immediately after Kant. Seldom in the history of philosophy has so brief a space of time produced so many philosophical innovations, many of which live on today, albeit under other names. Provides an intro- duction to the seminal role of Kant's thought as it influ- enced three of the most important thinkers of the time- Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.255
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. A study of some of the philosophical and literary works of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Marcel, and Camus.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. An introduction to phenomenology through a study of its major representatives, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PL201 and one additional PL200-level course. Traces the path of Heideggerian philosophy, focusing both on existential, hermeneutic approach of Being and Time, as well as on the later, more 'meditative' period.Questions will be raised about the implications of Heidegger's thinking for our understanding of the nature and history of philosophy.
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