Schedule of Readings

Philosophy 151

Fall, 1995

September
28 Introduction (No reading)


October
3 KANT AND SCHOPENHAUER, "The Will as Thing in Itself," 91-103

5 SCHOPENHAUER II, "The Primacy of the Will in Self-Consciousness," 126-130

10 SCHOPENHAUER III,"Character and Motivation," "Virtue and Renunciation," "The Incommunicable," 104-125

12 HEGEL I, "The General Concept of Logic," 61-75

17 HEGEL II, "Master and Servant," "Stoicism, Skepticism, The Unhappy Consciousness," 43-60

19 HEGEL III, "Philosophical History," "The Nature of Historical Change," 76-87

24 MARX I, "Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy," 263-272

26 MARX II, "Theses on Feuerbach," "Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular," 281-288

31 MARX III, "Alienated Labor," 273-280


November
2 KIERKEGAARD I, "The Absolute Paradox," "An Existential System is Impossible," 291-300

7 KIERKEGAARD II, "Faith and the Absurd," 301-308

9 KIERKEGAARD III, "Melancholy," "The Concept of Dread," "Subjective Dread," "Dread as a Saving Experience," 309-320

14 NIETZSCHE I, "Life, Knowledge and Self-Consciousness," "'Reason' in Philosophy," "The Error of Free Will," "The Illusion of Moral Judgment," 323-331, 360-366

16 NIETZSCHE II, "Master Morality and Slave Morality," "Bad Conscience," 344-359

21 NIETZSCHE III, "The "Prejudices of the Philosophers," 332-343

23 THANKSGIVING

28 DOSTOYEVSKY I, Notes from Underground, Part I, 3-28

30 DOSTOYEVSKY II, Notes from Underground, Part II, 29-89


December
5 OTHER PHILOSOPHERS (No reading)

7 CONCLUSION (No reading)


Nineteenth Century Philosophy