| PHIL 285 --
Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit Winter 2018 |
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| Instructor:
Clinton Tolley office: H&SS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Instructor:
Michael Hardimon office: H&SS 8084 hours: tbd email: mhardimon [at] ucsd.edu |
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| Time:
Weds 1:00pm--3:50pm Location: Philosophy Seminar Room (7th fl, HSS 7077) [map] |
| available at the Price
Center Bookstore {other texts will be made available electronically / tentative schedule of readings below} Hegel, Philosophy of Mind (= 'Spirit'), ed. Inwood, Oxford Hegel, Philosophy of Right, ed. Wood, Cambridge Hegel, On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy, ed. Gray, Hackett |
| Hegel, Lectures on the
Philosophy of Spirit 1827-28, Oxford Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, ed. Findlay, Oxford |
| In this course we will
examine Hegel's influential conception of 'spirit [Geist]'
as it is presented in the third volume of his 1817/1830
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. We will
analyze Hegel's treatment of spirit both in relation to
its own historical context as well as in relation to more
recent philosophy of mind, action, psychology, social
theory, politics, and the philosophy of culture (art,
religion, science). We will also explore recent
trends in secondary literature on Hegel's philosophy of
spirit, by authors such as: Judith Butler, Alfredo
Ferrarin, Markus Gabriel, Beatrice Longuenesse, Catherine
Malabou, Herbert Marcuse, Frederick Neuhouser, Angelica
Nuzzo, Terry Pinkard, Robert Pippin, Paul Redding, Judith
Shklar, Alison Stone, Willem de Vries, Allen Wood,
Christopher Yeomans, among others. The course will
not presuppose any prior knowledge of Hegel's philosophy,
though some background in the history of modern philosophy
will be helpful. Questions to be addressed include: * what is 'Geist'? ('mind'? 'spirit'?) * how does it relate to 'the soul [Seele]'? * how does it relate to the concept of 'life [Leben]'? * what is the relation between spirit and other elements in nature, such as electricity or magnetism? * how does it relate to 'consciousness [Bewusstsein]'? * what are the conditions for spirit being or having an 'I [Ich]'? * what is the relation between individual human beings and spirit? * how does spirit relate to self-consciousness and group ('we'-)consciousness? * what kind of spirit is present in groups (families, societies) of humans? * are there spirits besides or beyond whatever is present in human beings? * what does Hegel mean by dividing his treatment of spirit into 'subjective', 'objective', and 'absolute' spirit? * how does Hegel's philosophy of subjective spirit relate to psychology? * what is the difference between being an 'I' and being a person? * what is objective about the shapes of objective spirit (e.g. family, society, state, history)? * within objective spirit, what differentiates the topic of 'right' from that of 'morality [Moralitaet]' (and 'the good'), and both from 'ethical life [Sittlichkeit]'? * what is the ontological status of ethical, social, and political laws, values, and statuses? * what does Hegel mean by 'ethical substance' * who or what is the subject of actions by the family? the state? world history? * how does the individual human person relate to these wholes? * in what sense is absolute spirit absolute? is it also subjective? is it also objective? * why are art, religion, science, and philosophy manifestations of absolute spirit? * who or what is the subject or agent of the activity in art, religion, science, and philosophy? * how does the individual human person relate to these shapes of spirit? |
| {writing
assignments tentative} * attendance * weekly brief (~3min) in-class reports of your responses to the reading for Weds * weekly brief (~2pp) written responses to readings and class meetings (~500 words on primary texts, ~250 words on secondary lit) by Sat noon * medium-length (~3000 word) final essay due during finals week: critical engagement with one of our authors, related secondary literature (preceded by a ~500 word paper proposal due by end of week 9) |
| {tentative} week 1: Introduction to Hegel's terminology, system, and the concept of 'spirit' week 2: Subjective Spirit: Introduction, Anthropology, the doctrine of 'the Soul [Seele]' week 3: Subjective Spirit: Phenomenology, the doctrine of 'Consciousness [Bewusstsein]' week 4: Subjective Spirit: Psychology, the doctrine of (theoretical and practical) 'Spirit [Geist]' week 5: Objective Spirit: Introduction, the doctrine of Right [Recht]' week 6: Objective Spirit: the doctrine of 'Morality [Moralitaet]' week 7: Objective Spirit: the doctrine of 'Ethical Life [Sittlichkeit]' week 8: Transition to Absolute Spirit: the philosophy of World-History (and beyond) week 9: Absolute Spirit: the philosophy of Art and of Religion week 10: Absolute Spirit: the philosophy of Philosophy |
| history of philosophy ethics/social/political philosophy philosophy of mind |
| {online
encyclopedia entries} Redding, Hegel (overview) [sep] Horstmann, Hegel (overview) [rep] Knox, Hegel (overview) [britannica] Duquette, Hegel's social and political philosophy [iep] Houlgate, Hegel's aesthetics [sep] |