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Language Level: High Advanced

History of Spanish Thought

Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: International Students
Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Course Description

Area of Study

Hispanic Studies

Hours of Instruction

Semester Credit Units

Quarter Credit Units

High Advanced: Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of five semesters (seven quarters) of college-level Spanish.

FIRST SEMESTER [FALL]

1. Introduction to philosophy and Spanish thought.

2. Hispano-Roman philosophy. Seneca and Senequism.

3. Hispano-Visigothic philosophy. San Isidro of Sevilla.

4. Hispano-Muslim philosophy. Averroes.

5. Hispano-Jewish philosophy. Maimónides.

6. Hispano-Medieval Christian philosophy. The school of translators of Toledo. Raimundo Lulio.

7. Renaissance philosophy. Eramismo and Juan Luis Vives. Mysticism. Scholastic thought. Other currents.

8. Baroque philosophy. Quevedo and neoestoicism. Baltasar Gracián.

9. Enlightment philosophy. Feijoo and Jovellanos.

SECOND SEMESTER [WINTER]

10. Philosophy of the 19th Century (I). Krausism.

11. Philosophy of the 19th Century (II). The Free Institute of Teaching.

12. Philosophy of the 19th Century (III). Traditional and Catholic thought.

13. Philosophy of the 20th Century (I). Unamuno and the Generation of '98.

14. Philosophy of the 20th Century (II). Ortega and Gasset and the Generation of '14.

15. Philosophy of the 20th Century (III). Republican exile after the Civil War of 1936.

16. Philosophy in modern Spain. From Francoism to the present-day.