Dr. Stephen Hicks

medieval philosophy again much sophistication there had been a kind of dominant framework for a millennium and very quick time things transformed themselves in the 1500s 1600s all of those

medieval philosophy again much sophistication there had been a kind of dominant framework for a millennium and very quick time things transformed themselves in the 1500s 1600s all of those

uh intellectual cultural transformations uh that we that we study when we do the history and that course ends with the death of nietzsche in 1900 so essentially 1500 to 1900 eight lectures but also integrating the philosophers with what's going on historically Because in some cases, the philosophers are ones who make the historical revolution happen as their theoretical ideas are applied.

uh intellectual cultural transformations uh that we that we study when we do the history and that course ends with the death of nietzsche in 1900 so essentially 1500 to 1900 eight lectures but also integrating the philosophers with what's going on historically Because in some cases, the philosophers are ones who make the historical revolution happen as their theoretical ideas are applied.

uh intellectual cultural transformations uh that we that we study when we do the history and that course ends with the death of nietzsche in 1900 so essentially 1500 to 1900 eight lectures but also integrating the philosophers with what's going on historically Because in some cases, the philosophers are ones who make the historical revolution happen as their theoretical ideas are applied.

In other cases, the philosophers are responding to what's going on in the culture, what's going on historically, trying to make sense of it and either urge it on or retard it. The second course picks up in 1900 and it's called Postmodern Philosophy.

In other cases, the philosophers are responding to what's going on in the culture, what's going on historically, trying to make sense of it and either urge it on or retard it. The second course picks up in 1900 and it's called Postmodern Philosophy.

In other cases, the philosophers are responding to what's going on in the culture, what's going on historically, trying to make sense of it and either urge it on or retard it. The second course picks up in 1900 and it's called Postmodern Philosophy.

And the main point of that course is to say that the postmodern thinkers started to react against, in a very sophisticated way, much of what had happened intellectually in the modern era. and they in some cases were radicalizing it, in some cases wanting to overturn entirely what had occurred intellectually and culturally in the modern era.

And the main point of that course is to say that the postmodern thinkers started to react against, in a very sophisticated way, much of what had happened intellectually in the modern era. and they in some cases were radicalizing it, in some cases wanting to overturn entirely what had occurred intellectually and culturally in the modern era.

And the main point of that course is to say that the postmodern thinkers started to react against, in a very sophisticated way, much of what had happened intellectually in the modern era. and they in some cases were radicalizing it, in some cases wanting to overturn entirely what had occurred intellectually and culturally in the modern era.

And we started to see in philosophy a move to a more skeptical, relativized, even kind of the death of philosophy, the sense that philosophy has for millennia tried to answer all of these important questions about the meaning of life in a culminating fashion.

And we started to see in philosophy a move to a more skeptical, relativized, even kind of the death of philosophy, the sense that philosophy has for millennia tried to answer all of these important questions about the meaning of life in a culminating fashion.

And we started to see in philosophy a move to a more skeptical, relativized, even kind of the death of philosophy, the sense that philosophy has for millennia tried to answer all of these important questions about the meaning of life in a culminating fashion.

But from their more skeptical perspective, by the time we get into the 20th century, their verdict is philosophy has become impotent and self-realizes that it can't, in fact, answer any of those questions, so it should, in effect, disintegrate. So I'm concerned to lay out the pre-postmodern philosophers who are setting the stage for all of this.

But from their more skeptical perspective, by the time we get into the 20th century, their verdict is philosophy has become impotent and self-realizes that it can't, in fact, answer any of those questions, so it should, in effect, disintegrate. So I'm concerned to lay out the pre-postmodern philosophers who are setting the stage for all of this.

But from their more skeptical perspective, by the time we get into the 20th century, their verdict is philosophy has become impotent and self-realizes that it can't, in fact, answer any of those questions, so it should, in effect, disintegrate. So I'm concerned to lay out the pre-postmodern philosophers who are setting the stage for all of this.

Here I would name people like Bertrand Russell, who had a strongly skeptical phase, John Dewey and some of the pragmatists to some extent, Martin Heidegger. and various others culminating then in thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, who take it.

Here I would name people like Bertrand Russell, who had a strongly skeptical phase, John Dewey and some of the pragmatists to some extent, Martin Heidegger. and various others culminating then in thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, who take it.

Here I would name people like Bertrand Russell, who had a strongly skeptical phase, John Dewey and some of the pragmatists to some extent, Martin Heidegger. and various others culminating then in thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, who take it.