This unit examines excerpts from major texts by philosophers of the early modern, Kantian, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century periods, who may include Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Cudworth, More, Locke, Newton, Clarke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and representative thinkers from the nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual movements of idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, for example, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger. The unit focuses on themes such as the relation of body and soul, the question of certain knowledge and the relationship between scientific, theological and common-sense world views. In addition, attention is given to the dispute between those philosophers engaged in sceptical or atheistic attacks on religion and those philosophers engaged with producing religion-conducive systems or defending religion.
Unit code: AP9164C
Unit status: Approved (New unit)
Points: 24.0
Unit level: Postgraduate Elective
Unit discipline: Philosophy
Proposing College: Catholic Theological College
Show when this unit is running1. | Critically elaborate the key philosophical concepts, theories and arguments covered in the unit. |
2. | Critically appraise the arguments in the unit and evaluate core concepts, positions, assumptions and implications. |
3. | Develop, in written form, an exegetically robust reasoned argument related to a philosophical position covered in the unit. |
One foundational unit of Philosophy
Lectures, seminars, tutorials. When taught online asynchronously, the tutorial/seminar component may be replaced by guided reading exercises.
Type | Description | Word count | Weight (%) | |||||
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Variant 1 | ||||||||
Skeleton Argument | 1000 | 10.0 | ||||||
Essay | 6000 | 90.0 | ||||||
Variant 2 | ||||||||
Skeleton Argument | 1000 | 10.0 | ||||||
Essay | 4000 | 50.0 | ||||||
Written Examination | 2000 | 40.0 | ||||||
Variant 3 | ||||||||
Skeleton Argument | 1000 | 10.0 | ||||||
Essay | 2000 | 40.0 | ||||||
Essay | 4000 | 50.0 |
Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Prof Albert Haddad on 28 Jul, 2025
Unit record last updated: 2025-07-28 09:01:26 +1000