LECTURES ON MODERN PHILOSOPHY.A course of evening lectures on certain representative thinkers and problems of modern philosophy will be given by Professor Royce on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 in Sever 11.
The general purposes of this course are:
(1) To give personal characterizations of some of the more noteworthy modern thinkers.
(2) To suggest, as clearly as may be possible without technical details, something of the nature of their various attitudes towards the great concerns and issues of humanity.
(3) To illustrate, in the light of such a study, certain significant spiritual problems of our own day.
The following are the topics of the individual lectures:
(1) Spinoza and the Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. (2)From Spinoza to Kant. (3) Kant. (4) Fichte. (5) The Romantic Movement in Philosophy. (6) Hegel. (7) Schopenhauer. (8) The Rise of the Philosophy of Evolution. (9) Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy. (10) The Inner Life and Laws of Nature. (11. The Philosophy of Evolution. (12) Optimism and Pessimism.