The Birth of Modern Moral Philosophy (PHIL 273)

4 credits · Undergraduate

Grads enroll in 273. In this course, we shall see the birth of modern moral philosophy and its break with medieval and early modern Aristotelian natural law theory. We shall go on to examine some of the most important movements and figures of modern moral philosophy from the 16th to the 18th centuries. We shall read Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Samuel Pufendorf (1632-94), Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), and Richard Price (1723-1791).