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PHIL 212 Modern European Philosophy

Beginning with the 17th century, primary issues in the philosophy of knowledge and the philosophy of the good and implications for the value of philosophy itself are examined in the basic rationalism of Descrates, Spinoza and Leibnitz; the divergent empiricism of Locke, Berkeley and Hume; the Kantian revolution and reconstruction, the Hegelian dialectical system; subsequent contemporary philosophical themes as consequences to Kantian and Hegelian philosophizing.

Credits

3