PHL 120History Of Philosophy

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This course explores the history of western philosophy with an emphasis on the ancient, medieval and modern philosophical eras. Pursued chronologically, most attention is given to central figures such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant though a broader range will be investigated with an emphasis on their views relating to ethics, political theory, and metaphysics/epistemology (relating to the nature of reality and how we come to know such). The course also focuses on app lying historical philosophical thought to our contemporary world.