Course Description
The course will aim to present the ideas about human fulfillment/salvation that are contained in the key/breakthrough philosophical projects of the modern era. The philosophers who will be included (i.a. Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault) presented ideas about human fulfillment that were in some measure competitive with Christianity, in some measure flowing from it. The course will help address them critically from a theological/Catholic point of view (Thomas Aquinas). The course will belong to fundamental soteriology.
Bibliography
M.A. GILLESPIE, The Theological Origins of Modernity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Ch. TAYLOR, A Secular Age, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
R. SCRUTON, From Descartes to Wittgenstein. A Short History of Modern Philosophy, New York – Cambridge – Philadelphia – etc.: Harper&Row, Publishers, 1981.
J. W. COOPER, Panentheism. The Other God of the Philosophers. From Plato to the present, Nottingham: Apollos, 2007.
K. WARD, God and the Philosophers, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.