Philosophical and political modernity concerns the development of rationality, freedom, and social responsibility from out of the tensions between ethics, religion, politics and the economy. With postmodernist epistemology, the so-called 'return' of religion, and economic globalization, this 'modernity' has been questioned. In this historical context the course re-elaborates the problematic of modernity through selective reading of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
Code
PL3076
Name
KANT, HEGEL, AND BEYOND
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
College Level=Junior OR PO1011GE110 OR PO1012 OR PO1011CCR
Co-requisites
None
Equivalencies
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PL (Philosophy)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
2974
Last update with CAMS
On the basis of close reading, to be able to define and reproduce key concepts and theses in Kant and Hegel’s political philosophy
On the basis of close reading, to be able to analytically recompose important arguments, such as that leading to the role of regulative ideas in Kant.
To be able to construct, starting from a specified historical context, a philosophical question or problem in all of its depth within the domain of political modernity via Kant and Hegel, and, at an advanced level, to identify echoes and avatars of these problems in contemporary politics.