Subject Area: Philosophy<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: European Studies<br/><br/>This course examines what it means to be modern. It also examines both those who problematise the idea of modernity as well as the key critics of modernity. Defenders of modernity argue the rise of scientific rationality has liberated us from nature, the dogmatic authority of religion and tradition and made individual freedom possible for all. Critics of modernity argue the price of this faith in progress has been an alienation from nature, ourselves and a wholesale instrumentalising of nature and humanity. These concerns are central to the philosophical problem of... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: PHIL2515, ARTS2362
