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On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
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Explain the transcendental turn that Kant inaugurated in modern philosophy, and the distinction he drew between the transcendental and the transcendent;
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distinguish and evaluate Kant’s religious, logical, metaphysical and epistemological reasons against the philosophical attempt to prove the existence of God in traditional metaphysics and natural theology;
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appraise central tenets in Kant’s modern philosophy, in light of Hume’s critique of substance, causality and personal identity, such as: the categories of the human understanding, sense intuition, space and time as a priori mental forms of intuition, the transcendental unity of apperception, the transcendental imagination, the ideas of unity, totality and infinity, and transcendental delusion;
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elaborate on central tenets of Fichte’s account of moral consciousness, Schelling’s account of aesthetic consciousness, and Hegel’s account of rational consciousness as developments of post-Kantian critical transcendental philosophy;
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recognise different positions and perspectives on the themes of alienation and reconciliation in post-Kantian modern philosophy, through an examination of some of the main rejecters of Hegel’s account (e.g., Kierkegaard, Dilthey and Marx);
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articulate central tenets in Kierkegaard’s philosophy, such as absurdity, existence, anxiety, the leap of faith, authenticity, inauthenticity, the crowd, the teleological suspension of the ethical, and the three stages of life in the aesthetic, ethical and religious spheres of individual human existence;
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assess the different ways in which the problem of the relation of the finite to the infinite was addressed in Kant’s philosophy and in post-Kantian modern philosophy (e.g., in Hegel, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas).
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MODERN PHILOSOPHY
