$1,500.00
This course is part of the following programs:
Admission into a qualifying Program of Study.
There are no prerequisite courses.
The ability to read complex texts and follow sustained arguments is required.
We will read excerpts from three Platonic dialogues: The Republic on justice and the virtue of the soul, The Phaedo on the immortality of the soul, and The Phaedrus on the ascent of the soul. We will then read brief sections from Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics and from Plotinus’s Enneads. Christian interpretations of Plato (St. Augustine) and Aristotle (Aquinas) conclude the first half of the course.
We will then continue with a look at Scotus’s reinterpretation of Aristotle’s theory of knowledge, and its consequences for Modern philosophy (Descartes, Leibniz, and Hume). We will conclude with Kant’s restriction of reason to empirical phenomena and the knowledge it can have of itself, and Hegel’s attempt to overcome these boundaries to return to Absolute Knowledge. The following Hackett readers are required:
The class will meet for three hours each week. The course is structured as a series of lectures. Students will be asked to complete brief assignments (typically between 3–5 questions) to test their comprehension of the materials presented in class. There will be final exam. This is a take-home exam.
$1,500.00
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