PHIL273

Philosophers in nineteenth-century Europe and America were preoccupied with the questions of what it means to be free, and how power might be wielded so as to create free persons. Their views have had a tremendous influence on global philosophy, on disciplines outside of philosophy, and on world events. The course will engage with these views, focusing on the works of Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Frederick Douglass.