UNSW Handbook Course - Themes in the History of Philosophy

Themes in the History of Philosophy - PHIL5002


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Philosophy
	Contact: Michael,Michaelis Stephanou
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Explores philosophical themes from the history of modern philosophy. Themes will be selected from a range of topics including: substance, mind and bodies, freedom, being, the ideal and the real, reason and judgement, and the social contract. Philosophical texts to be examined will be chosen from the work of influential thinkers from the 17th to the 19th centuries including: Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Mill. No more than two themes will be selected for study in the work of no more than two theorists, depending on student requirements.

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