History of Modern European Philosophy

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Modern European philosophy centers on the theories of knowledge, morality and metaphysics of key thinkers of the 17th- and 18th-centuries, notably Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Together, these thinkers brought to birth a distinctively European approach to humanism, in dialog with science and reason, that has resonated powerfully across the world. This course examines their key arguments by reading selected primary texts, and debates their continued relevance in the contemporary world. 001320