| Title: | 19th Cent. European Philosophy |
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| Course Section Number: | PHI-249-01 |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Description: | This course approaches 19th-century European philosophy through the treatment of four major figures whose influence continues to be felt: Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Responding to Hegel's precedent, the three later thinkers must grapple with the relationship between systematic knowledge and history. Hegel produces a unified system of philosophy by articulating the history of knowledge in a way that denies the division of knowledge into various sub-disciplines (logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, and so forth). This insight into the history of knowledge guides the three other thinkers who follow even as they find various positions from which to criticize Hegel. Marx wants a more materialist philosophy, and so turns Hegel's dialectic on its head. Kierkegaard begins to expose the cracks in the project of universal systematic thinking, showing its limits by affirming the singularity of religious experience. Nietzsche makes the system break by developing a critique of metaphysics, which is to say, of any philosophical thinking purporting to operate outside of history, context, and particular motivations. So, the course begins by laying out a system of metaphysics and ends by considering why that very project might be a problem. The course will provide historical context that enriches students' understanding of existentialism and continental philosophy, but it presupposes no philosophical background. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 16, 2023 |
| End Date: | May 6, 2023 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/16/2023-05/05/2023 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 02:10PM - 03:00PM, Room to be Announced
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| Faculty: | Trott, Adriel |
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