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Apr 20, 2024
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Goucher College 2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 415 - Plotinus and Hegel (4 Cr.)
These are two philosophers you never thought you would see paired together. Plotinus is a 4th century mystic from North Africa who founded Neoplatonism. Neoplatonism today has come to be called “the perennial philosophy” because of its long-standing historical influence, and it still remains in deeply embedded in our religion and culture views today. Hegel’s philosophy described the dialectical movement of reason in history. Hegel’s philosophy made it possible for Marx to turn Hegel’s dialectic on its head and create the political and economic revolutions of 20th century and for French Existentialism to speak to the next generation of philosophers about existence. Hegel’s philosophy actually follows Plotinus’ description of multiplicity articulating essential unity of self-knowing as reality flows forth from The One. While Hegel is considered by many now-a-days to be incomprehensible, reading Hegel alongside Plotinus actually helps a great deal. We shall read Plotinus’ Enneads, Porphyry’s Isagoge, and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Prerequisite: Either two philosophy courses (one at the 300-level), or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2018-19 and alternate years. Rose.
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