Great Works of Philosophy II

Each section of this writing-intensive course introduces students to at least two great works of philosophy from the Modern and Contemporary periods, such as Descartes's Meditations, Berkeley's Dialogues, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Kitaro Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good, S Radhakrishnan's Eastern Religions and Western Thought, and Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism. The chosen books, each a great work of world literature, expose students to the thought of at least two different cultures and historical periods, and exhibit at least two distinct literary forms (such as the dialogue, the confessional essay or meditation, the analytic disquisition, and the polemic).