19th Century Philosophy

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course offers an overview of several of the key figures and trends in 19th Century Post-Kantian European Philosophy. Philosophers to be studied include: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Topics include: the possibility of metaphysics after Kant, the aspirations of philosophical systematicity, the nature of the self, the status of morality, philosophical optimism/pessimism, the move toward increasing secularity, and the impending threat of nihilism.