Course Description

PY262 Modern Philosophy I 0.5

An introduction to modern philosophy, which will discuss its beginnings in the Renaissance and its development in the 17th and 18th centuries. Discussion will focus on thinkers such as Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Hume, Rousseau and Kant. The rise of science, modernity, the Enlightenment, empiricism, rationalism and idealism will be possible topics for discussion.†

Prerequisite: Registration status: senior student.

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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