Courses
WINTER / SPRING 2024
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Course Description |
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| Heidegger: Introduction to Philosophy | n/a | DePaul | William McNeill | Wmcneill -at- depaul.edu |
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| Classical German Philosophy | In this course, we will focus on the ideals of grounding, unity, and systematicity in German Idealism, reactions and counter-movements in the early Romantic movement. We will therefore begin with the “Spinozism Controversy” ignited by Friedrich Jacobi in 1785, turn to the reception of Kant in that context by Reinhold and Fichte, and then the development of early German Idealism and Romanticism in Jena, through figures such as Schelling, Schiller, Goethe, Schlegel, and Hegel. Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the wake of Kant’s Critical Philosophy. | Loyola University, Chicago | Naomi Fisher | Nfisher1 -at- luc.edu |
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| Introduction to Hegelian Metaphysics | This course is an introduction to Hegelian Metaphysics. | Northwestern University | Mark Alznauer | m-alznauer -at- northwestern.edu |
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| Kant on Moral Meaning | Kant is known mostly as a moral theorist. In that capacity, he argued that morality was a matter of pure practical rationality and that we are unconditionally obligated to a moral law, the categorical imperative. But Kant also noted that we do not experience our moral lives in those theoretical terms, and in several texts, he explored the various ways in which our moral vocation is ordinarily experienced, what it means to us, and how it comes to matter to us. In that context, he discusses such topics as conscience, virtue and the formation of character, moral education, whether human beings are radically evil, how the claims of morality fit into a human life as a whole, and the possibility of a moral community. These themes will comprise the topics of this seminar. The texts will include sections from his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, his Doctrine of Virtue, his Lectures on Ethics, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, and essays on the problems of casuistry. | University of Chicago | Robert Pippin | r-pippin -at- uchicago.edu |
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| Nietzsche’s Theory of Value | The seminar will explore aspects of Nietzsche’s theory of value, especially regarding morality and aesthetics, in the context of two major intellectual 19th-century influences on his thought: naturalism (especially through Schopenhauer and German Materialism) and Romanticism. The first half of the seminar (led by Leiter) will emphasize naturalistic themes in his understanding of morality in On the Genealogy of Morality and excerpts from Beyond Good and Evil. The second half (led by Forster) will examine the influence of Romanticism, including in The Birth of Tragedy and selections from later works. | University of Chicago |
Michael Forster; Brian Leiter |
mnforste -at- uchicago.edu bleiter -at- uchicago.edu |
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| Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good | n/a | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Nataliya Palatnik | palatnik -at- uwm.edu |
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| Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge | n/a | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | William Bristow | bristow -at- uwm.edu |