Modern European Philosophy.

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Introduces students to the history of modern European philosophy during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Figures may include Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Nietzsche. Topics may include the philosophical development of modern natural and social science, rationalist and empiricist accounts of the origins of knowledge, debates between idealists and materialists, as well as philosophical perspectives on politics, morality, religion, culture, and history.