PHILOS C151B
History of Ethics: Modern
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: two philosophy courses. Intensive study of Kant's ethical theory. May be taken independently for credit. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. May be concurrently scheduled with course C245. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2024 - Prof. DeWitt is very nice and I can feel her passion for Kantian Ethics from every lecture of her. She has tried her best to make things clear though there is still a bit of room for improvement (sometimes she makes things too clear, which can make it hard to track where the entire discussion is going -- but this wasn't too much a problem). Would recommend and take again.
Spring 2024 - Prof. DeWitt is very nice and I can feel her passion for Kantian Ethics from every lecture of her. She has tried her best to make things clear though there is still a bit of room for improvement (sometimes she makes things too clear, which can make it hard to track where the entire discussion is going -- but this wasn't too much a problem). Would recommend and take again.
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She is definitely the expert in Kant's moral theory. But I feel like she is not a good at explaining them clearly (compared to Burge's lectures on Kant's epistemology). Kant is hard, his invents new vocabularies for his philosophy, which makes it harder. Professor Herman's lectures are usually too dry and she keeps using those abstract terms without explaining them very clearly (might be my problem, but when the examples she gives are quite unintuitive sometimes, plus she doesn't really focus on using example to make things clearer to you, maybe she is counting on you to understand the terms or theories by yourself). Phil 151B is a great class about Kant's ethics, but IMHO there's still room for professor Herman to improve.
She is definitely the expert in Kant's moral theory. But I feel like she is not a good at explaining them clearly (compared to Burge's lectures on Kant's epistemology). Kant is hard, his invents new vocabularies for his philosophy, which makes it harder. Professor Herman's lectures are usually too dry and she keeps using those abstract terms without explaining them very clearly (might be my problem, but when the examples she gives are quite unintuitive sometimes, plus she doesn't really focus on using example to make things clearer to you, maybe she is counting on you to understand the terms or theories by yourself). Phil 151B is a great class about Kant's ethics, but IMHO there's still room for professor Herman to improve.
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