19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: IDEALISM AND ITS CRITICS
Examine debates about the legacy of idealism by discussing some of their most familiar interlocutors - Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx - as well as interlocutors who were obscured from history.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: 3 credits in PHILOS Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand major nineteenth-century debates about epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Make persuasive philosophical arguments. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret complex texts accurately and analyze them logically. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Practice interpretative charity and intellectual honesty, which includes appropriate attribution to others of their ideas, and recognition and frankness about the limitations of one’s own ideas. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand major nineteenth-century debates about epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Make persuasive philosophical arguments. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret complex texts accurately and analyze them logically. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Practice interpretative charity and intellectual honesty, which includes appropriate attribution to others of their ideas, and recognition and frankness about the limitations of one’s own ideas. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027