Get an introduction to the contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality and knowledge, led by an author and award-winning professor, as you explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements.
The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01: Philosophy and the Modern Age
- 02: Scholasticism and the Scientific Revolution
- 03: The Rationalism and Dualism of Descartes
- 04: Locke's Empiricism, Berkeley's Idealism
- 05: Neo-Aristotelians-Spinoza and Leibniz
- 06: The Enlightenment and Rousseau
- 07: The Radical Skepticism of Hume
- 08: Kant's Copernican Revolution
- 09: Kant and the Religion of Reason
- 10: The French Revolution and German Idealism
- 11: Hegel-The Last Great System
- 12: Hegel and the English Century
- 13: The Economic Revolution and Its Critic-Marx
- 14: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason
- 15: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality and Truth
- 16: Freud, Weber, and the Mind of Modernity
- 17: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Pragmatism
- 18: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Analysis
- 19: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Phenomenology
- 20: Physics, Positivism, and Early Wittgenstein
- 21: Emergence and Whitehead
- 22: Dewey's American Naturalism
- 23: Heidegger's Being and Time
- 24: Existentialism and the Frankfurt School
- 25: Heidegger's Turn against Humanism
- 26: Culture, Hermeneutics, and Structuralism
- 27: Wittgenstein's Turn to Ordinary Language
- 28: Quine and the End of Positivism
- 29: New Philosophies of Science
- 30: Derrida's Deconstruction of Philosophy
- 31: The Challenge of Postmodernism
- 32: Rorty and the End of Philosophy
- 33: Rediscovering the Premodern
- 34: Pragmatic Realism-Reforming the Modern
- 35: The Reemergence of Emergence
- 36: Philosophy's Death Greatly Exaggerated
Taught by
Lawrence Cahoone
