2019-2020 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHL-372 German Idealism: Mind, Nature and Spirit


Analysis of Texts (TA)
PHL 101
This course is an exploration of the German Idealist movement from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. German Idealism began as a response to Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism and critique of the European Enlightenment. The course highlights the critiques of Kant’s idealism and the innovations in idealism offered by major figures such as Jacobi, Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlin. Although we will acknowledge the various transformations in epistemology and metaphysics during this post-Kantian era, the course will focus on these historical figures’ philosophical debates and resolutions on the meaning of Nature, human consciousness, Spirit, the role of art and poetry in moral development, romanticism, and reason versus faith. 4



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