| PHIL
33
--
Philosophy
between
Reason
and
Despair Spring 2013 |
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| Professor:
Clinton
Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistant:
tbd office: hours: tbd email: tbd |
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| Time:
Tues,
Thurs
12:30pm--1:50pm Location: Peterson Hall (PETER) 103 [map] NOTE: despite what is posted on the Registrar's course listings, there will *NOT* be required sections for this course. |
| {available at UCSD
Bookstore (in the Price Center)} Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals Paton, trans; Harper Perennial Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Hanney, trans; Penguin Classics Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals Smith, trans; Oxford World's Classics William James, Pragmatism and other writings Gunn, ed; Penguin Classics |
| This course will
serve as
an introduction to nineteenth-century philosophy, with a
focus on the
emerging skepticism about the authority of reason to
answer questions
about the ultimate meaning and value of human life. Readings will include texts from Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James. |
| {tentative} * weekly reading questionnaires * mid-term exam * final exam * attendance * participation |
| {tentative; full
syllabus to posted
on TED} weeks 1-3: Kant weeks 3-5: Kierkegaard weeks 6-8: Nietzsche weeks 9-10: James |
| Routledge
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
entries (requires sign-in) Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
entries
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