Overview
Description
Detailed study of one or more figures such as Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, Green, or Bradley. May be repeated when course content differs.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 6 credits in philosophy.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
6 credits in philosophy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a key 19th-century philosophical text, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
- explain and interpret some central ideas associated with one or more 19th-century philosophers.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a 19th-century philosophical text and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
- show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in a 19th-century philosophical text.