Social Sciences Department

De La Salle University - Dasmariņas

Dasmariņas, Cavite

 

Syllabus

SY 1999-2000

 

I. Subject Code: Phlo 108

II. Subject title: Modern Philosophy

III. Course Description:

This course provides a synthetic vision of the history of modern philosophy, from an analytical perspective. It is necessarily selective, but this would identify the principal figures, and the principal intellectual preoccupations, that have formed western philosophy since Descartes. Thus, it is inevitable to explore the historical conditions and the currents of influence which led from Hobbes to Spinoza, from Malebrance to Berkley, from Rousseau to Kant, and from Schopenhauer to Wittgeinstein.

IV. Credit: Three (3) Units

V. Objectives

Cognitive:

Analyze the rise of modern philosophy that gave birth to a new form of philosophizing in the 19th and 20th century.

Affective:

Appreciate the multi-diversity of ideas in discovering the truth.

Psychomotor:

Develop a critical open-mindedness to apply real-life situation a what you called "synthesis of knowledge"

VI. Content Outline

  1. History of philosophy and History of Ideas
  2. The rise of modern Philosophy
  1. Part One: Rationalism
  2. Descartes
  3. The Cartesian Revolution
  4. Spinoza
  5. Leibnitz

Preliminary Period

Part Two:

  1. Locke and Berkley
  2. The Idea of a Moral Science
  3. Hume
  4. Part Three:
  5. Kant I: The Critique of Pure Reason
  6. Kant II: Ethics and Aesthetics
  7. Hegel
  8. Reactions: Schopenhaer, Keirkegard, Nietzsche

 

Midterm Examinations

Part Four:

  1. Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel
  2. Marx
  3. Utilitarianism
  4. Part Five:
  5. Frege
  6. Phenomenology and Existentialism
  7. Wittgenstein

 

Final Examinations

 

Grading System

1. Attendance 10%

2. Recitation/Paper 30%

3. Quizzes 30%

4. Major Exam 30%

Total: 100%

 

Major Reference:

 

  • Scruton, Roger (1995). A Short History of Modern Philosophy. London and New York. Routledge.
  • Prepared by:

    Dr. Jing Reyes, Ph.D.

     

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