Taught at Augustana College Winter 2006-2007
Course Description:
In this class we will attempt an examination of some key texts in the history of metaphysics: Plato's Sophist, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Metaphysics is the study of being qua being, the study of what exists insofar as it exists. In examining these various texts, we will discuss, among other things, the nature of being and the idea of substance. We must also confront the question of whether metaphysics is possible-can one study being qua being?