Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Apr 20, 2024  
Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

PHL 316 - Modern Philosophy (4 Cr.)

(Formerly PHL 216) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An advanced survey of seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy as developed in the writings of Descartes, Leibniz,Spinoza, Locke, Hume and others. All readings are from primary sources, supplemented by lecture and discussion. We will consider not only the internal arguments of these texts, but also the broader cultural and political questions that frame their arguments. Prerequisite: Either one philosophy course, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2018-19 and alternate years. DeCaroli.