intellectual traditions in history of western philosophy

Intellectual traditions embody the ideas behind modern philosophical thinkings and movements through an exploration of philosophical works of various cultures and eras which have resulted in the myriad of western approaches to knowledge and elements of reality, with varied perspective on aspects of human existence. (introduction from philosophy indefinitely)

lecture notes:

1. Philosophy and the modern age
2. Scholasticism and the scientific revolution
3. The rationalism and dualism of Descartes
4. “Locke’s empiricism, Berkeley’s idealism”
5. Neo Aristotelians – Spiniza and Leibniz
6. The Enlightenment and Rousseau
7. The radical scepticism of Hume
8. Kant’s Copernican revolution
9. Kant and the religion of reason
10. The French revolution and German idealism
11. “Hegel, the last great system”
12. Hegel and the English century
13. “The economic revolution and its critic, Marx”
14. Kierkegaard’s critique of reason
15. Nietzsche’s critique of morality and truth
16. “Freud, Weber, and the mind of modernity”
17. Rise of 20th century philosophy – pragmatism
18. Rise of 20th century philosophy – analysis
19. Rise of 20th century philosophy – phenomenology
20. “Physics, positivism, and early Wittgenstein”
21. Emergence and Whitehead
22. Dewey’s American naturalism
23. Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’
24. Existentialism and the Frankfurt school
25. Heidegger’s turn against humanism
26. “Culture, hermeneutics, and structuralism”
27. Wittgenstein’s turn to ordinary language
28. Quine and the end of positivism
29. New philosophies of science
30. Derrida’s deconstruction of philosophy
31. The challenge of postmodernism
32. Rorty and the end of philosophy
33. Rediscovering the pre-modern
34. Pragmatic realism – reforming the modern
35. The re-emergence of emergence
36. Philosophy’s death, greatly exaggerated