PHIL 332 Modern Philosophy

This course examines the history of Western philosophy and political theory from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. Major thinkers examined may include Descartes, Bacon, Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Hegel, and Marx. The classical topics of human nature, the good life, the good society, history, and the nature of knowledge and reality will form the themes of the course.