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