PHIL 410 Classical Philosophical Texts
This course is a seminar for advanced students centered around one great work from the history of philosophy. The great work under consideration will vary, but such works could include: Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, or Heidegger’s Being and Time. The seminar will emphasize close reading of the text, but we will also explore the genesis of the text and major strands of interpretation that it has inspired. Students must have already had significant exposure to the history of philosophy and have developed some capacity for philosophical thinking.
Prerequisite
WRIT 102 or
WRIT 201 & two PHIL courses, one of which must be at the 300-level or above, or permission of the department