Week - 1 |
Introduction: The significance of Kant in the history of philosophy and his influence on the 19th century philosophy. Kantian philosophy in the 19th century. German Idealism. |
Week - 2 |
The birth of philosophy of history-19. century as ‘the century of history’. Herder, “Thoughts On The Philosophy of History of Humanity”; Kant, “A General View of History Towards A Cosmopolitan Intent”. |
Week - 3 |
Philosophy of history- Fichte, “The Fundamental Characteristics of Our Time”; Schelling, “The Concept of History”, “Is There A Philosophy of History?”; Hegel, “Philosophy of History of The World”, “Reason in History: An Introduction to Philosophy of History”. |
Week - 4 |
Hegel-Phenomenology of Spirit and its impacts [Bumin, 2005, Selected Essays: “Reading Phenomenology As a Philosophy of Freedom”, “The Dialogue Between The Philosopher and The Other in The Phenomenology of Spirit”]. |
Week - 5 |
Hegel- The Phenomenology of Spirit and its impacts [Bumin, 2005, Selected Essays: “The Adventure of Consciousness in The Phenomenology of Spirit”]. Hegel’s philosophy of art [Bumin, 2005: “An Essay on ‘The Death of Art’ in Hegel”]. |
Week - 6 |
Historical/Dialectical materialism. Engels and Marx. An opposition to traditional philosophy. The question of the aim of philosophy. |
Week - 7 |
Historical/Dialectical materialism. Selections from Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy; Marx, 1844 Manuscripts. The philosophical foundations of ‘communist/socialist’ ideology. |
Week - 8 |
Early existentialists: Schopenhauer-World as Will and Representation, The Metaphysics of Love; Kierkegaard-Fear and Trembling, The Concept of Anxiety. |
Week - 9 |
Nietzsche and his criticism of the European cultural tradition as Socratic. Selections from Philosophy In The Tragic Era Of The Greeks. |
Week - 10 |
Nietzsche and his criticism of the European culture. Selections from Ecce Homo and On The Genealogy of Morals. |
Week - 11 |
Positivism. J. S. Mill, Comte and followers of Comte. [Copleston, 2006, Part 3-p. 52-90, Part 4 section 8-s. 109-114] |
Week - 12 |
Liberal thought. J.S. Mill, his thoughts on individual liberties and rights, and, on government [Copleston, 2006, Part 2-p.39-46] |
Week - 13 |
Liberal thought and social evolution. H. Spencer, individual liberties, stages and lives of societies [Copleston, 2006, Part 5-p.123-130] |
Week - 14 |
Evaluation: From 19th century on, is it inevitable to address or object Kant’s philosophy in every philosophical problem? Why? |