Course Schedule

Week 1	Aug. 29th:	Introduction to the course, What is late modern philosophy?
	Kant
	31st:	The peculiar fate of reason, morality: Critique of Pure Reason, First Preface*, and Second Preface (Prolegomena, pp. 139-53)
Week 2	Sep. 5th:	No classes—Labor Day
	7th:	Metaphysics as a science?: Prolegomena, Preface, Preamble (pp. 5-23)
Week 3	12th:	Transcendental philosophy and metaphysics: Prolegomena, General Question (pp. 24-31)
	14th:	Space and time, pure mathematics: Prolegomena, First Part (pp. 32-45)
Week 4	19th:	Pure a priori synthetic judgments, pure nature: Prolegomena, Second Part (pp. 46-78); Recommended: Critique, Transcendental Logic (pp. 161-91)
	21st:	Rational ideas: Prolegomena, Third Part (pp. 79-101), Critique, Transcendental Dialectic (pp. 192-4)
Week 5	26th:	The purpose of metaphysics: Prolegomena, Third Part, Solution (pp. 102-22)
	28th:	No classes scheduled at Hunter
Week 6	Oct. 3rd:	Responding to critics: Prolegomena, Appendix(pp. 123-134); Recommended: Background Materials (pp. 201-11)
	5th:	Reason unconstrained: “What is Enlightenment?”*
Week 7	10th:	No classes—Columbus Day
	Hegel
	12th:	Reason against the understanding: “The Need of Philosophy”*
Week 8	17th:	Cognition as medium or instrument?: Phenomenology, “Introduction”*
	19th:	Cognition as a false problem: Phenomenology, “Introduction”*; First essay assigned
Week 9	24th:	Unmediated knowing: Phenomenology, “Sense-Certainty”*
	26th:	Inevitable mediation: Phenomenology, Sense-Certainty”*
Week 10	31st:	Desire for recognition: Phenomenology, “Mastery and servitude”*
	Nov. 2nd:	Advantageous bondage: Phenomenology, “Mastery and servitude”*; First essay due
	Kierkegaard
Week 11	7th:	Who is Johannes de Silentio?:, Fear and Trembling, Preface (pp. 3-6)
	9th:	The poetry of faith, for Abraham: Fear, “Tuning Up”, “A Tribute to Abraham” (pp. 7-20)
Week 12	14th:	Who is a knight of faith?: Fear, “Preliminary Outpouring” (pp. 21-46)
	16th:	Is faith outside ethical teleology?: Fear, “Problem I” (pp. 46-59)
Week 13	21st:	Is faith still a duty?: Fear, “Problem II” (pp. 59-71)
	23rd:	Can Abraham be an aesthetic and a religious hero?: Fear, “Problem III” (pp. 71-109)
		Thanksgiving Recess
	Nietzsche
Week 14	28th:	Genealogy, “Preface” (pp. 3-10)
	30th:	Noble and slave moralities: Genealogy, “First Essay” (pp. 11-37)
Week 15	Dec. 5th:	Overcoming forgetting: Genealogy, “Second Essay” (pp. 38-71); Second essay assigned
	7th:	Priests and life: Genealogy, “Third Essay”, §1-12 (pp. 72-91)
	12th:	Science and life: Genealogy, “Third Essay”, §13-28 (pp. 92-128)
	19th:	Second essay due