Richard Peterson

Required Readings
 M.J. Inwood, ed., Hegel.  Selections
 R. Poirier, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson
 P. Gardiner, ed., Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
  J. Gray, ed., John Stuart Mill.  On Liberty and Other Essays
 W. Kaufmann, ed., The Portable Nietzsche
 Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self

Course Outline

Sept. 3 Introduction.

Sept. 8 Mill, "On Liberty," Parts I, II, & III; Taylor, pp. 111-158

Sept. 10 Mill, "On Liberty," Parts IV & V;  Taylor, pp. 159-199

Sept. 15 Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

Sept. 17 Mill, "Inductions Improperly So Called," "The Ground of Induction," "Liberty and Necessity," "Human Nature as a Subject of Science," "The Laws of Mind," pp. 191-225 (Gardiner)

Sept. 22 Comte, "The Nature of the Positive Philosophy," "The Hierarchy of the Sciences," "Intellectual and Moral Phenomena," pp. 131-57 (Gardiner)

Sept. 24 Emerson, "The Method of Nature," "The Over-Soul"

Sept. 29 Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit:  Preface,"  pp. 115-134;  Taylor, pp. 211-247

Oct. 1 Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit:  Preface,"  pp. 134-151;  Taylor, pp. 248-265

Oct. 6 Hegel, "Phenomenology of Spirit:  Preface,"  pp. 115-151;  Taylor, pp. 266-302

Oct. 8 Emerson, "Nature," "The American Scholar," "The Conservative"

Oct. 13 Mill, "The Subjection of Women," Parts I & II

Oct. 15 Mill, "The Subjection of Women" Parts III & IV

Oct. 20 Hegel, "Philosophy of History:  Introduction," pp. 331-352

Oct. 22 Hegel, "Philosophy of History:  Introduction," pp. 352-70;  Emerson, "History"
Oct. 27 Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, sections 1 through 5

Oct. 29 Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, sections 7,8,16,18

Nov. 3 Hegel, "Encyclopaedia:  Objective Mind," pp. 288-303

Nov. 5 Hegel, "Encyclopaedia:  Objective Mind," pp. 303-330

Nov. 10 Feuerbach, "The Essence of Religion Considered Generally," "The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God," pp. 239-250 (Gardiner);  Emerson, "The Transcendentalist";  Taylor, pp. 305-320

Nov. 12 Marx, "Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy," pp. 263-272 (Gardiner);  Taylor, pp. 321-354

Nov. 17 Marx "Alienated Labor," "Theses on Feuerbach," "Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular," pp. 273-288 (Gardiner);  Taylor, pp. 355-390

Nov. 19 Nietzsche, "Master Morality and Slave Morality," "Bad Conscience," pp. 344-59 (Gardiner)

Nov. 24 Nietzsche, from The Gay Science, pp. 93-102; on knowledge and philosophy, pp. 323-43 (Gardiner)

Dec. 1 Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, "prologue," and sects. 1,2,4,7,9,10,11,12,15,16,22 and Part II, sects. 3,6,12,13

Dec. 3 Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, sects. 2,10,11;  Twilight of the Idols, pp. 465-79

Dec. 8 Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, pp. 479-536

Dec. 10 Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, pp. 536-63

Dec. 15 Course Review

Course Requirements   Class attendance is required, and everyone should come ready to discuss the readings.  Short papers will be due Sept. 29, Oct. 27, and Nov. 19.  Students receiving graduate credit will have to make a brief presentation on one of the readings.  A term paper will be due Monday, Dec. 21 by 12 noon in the Philosophy Department office, 503 S. Kedzie.  The short papers will each count roughly 15% of the grade, the term paper 40%, with attendance and participation making up the rest.

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