PHL 4030 - Metaphysics

Credits: 4

”All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare” (Spinoza). Metaphysics is devoted to the study of some of the rarest, most excellent, and most difficult philosophical topics. Studying writings of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and other philosophers, this course explores radically different answers to the question concerning being: being is substance (and pre-eminently the highest substance, God); it is the necessary ground for human thought; it is the ultimate resolution of all contradictions inherent in thought; it is that which we approach through our questions but never reach. But even apart from their answers, the philosophers chosen reveal their diversity as thinkers by the variety of ways in which they understand and approach the question concerning being. Area Requirement for Philosophy: Reality
Prerequisite(s): Any 1000 level course in Philosophy and another course in Philosophy or the permission of the professor.