PHIL 339 - Western Philosophy IV: 19Th Century Philosophy

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course explores the writings of some of the most important philosophers of this period of philosophy. Central texts of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Comte, Spencer, Marx, Thoreau, Emerson, Du Bois, Douglass, Peirce, James, Bergson, Mill, and Nietzsche. They will be read in view of the focal problems that concerned them and that still affect us today. (formerly PHIL 339).

Offered (AS NEEDED)