Phil 107: 19th Century Philosophy
Fall, 2021

Readings

Thursday, September 23
: (no reading, first class).
Tuesday, September 28
: No class due to Shemini Atzeret.
Thursday, September 30
: Schelling, System: Foreword, Introduction, and Part One (pp. 1–33).
Monday, October 4
: Schelling, System: Part Two; Part Three, Introductory, I, and II, beginning of First Epoch (pp. 34–60) (at the usual class time, via Zoom).
Tuesday, October 5
: Schelling, System: Part Three, II, Third Epoch, §IV and General Note; Part Four, beginning, up until (but not including) “Additional Remarks” (pp. 148-171).
Thursday, October 7
: Schelling System: Part Four, “Additional Remarks” and beginning of Problem E; Part Four, IIIF; Part Five; Part Six (pp. 171–7 and 212–236).
Tuesday, October 12
: Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, first part: Essays IV–VII (on the Principles of Method).
Thursday, October 14
: Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, first part: Essay XI (on the Principles of Method); Aids to Reflection (1825): Advertisement; Preface; Introductory Aphorisms I–XI, XX–XXIV, XXX–XXXII; Prudential Aphorisms VI–VII; Reflections Respecting Morality, first part (through “lays claim to permanence only under the form of duty”); Moral and Religious Aphorisms, beginning of Aphorism VI (through “any positive Notion or Insight”), and Aphorisms XXXVI and XLIII (pp. iii–xii, 1–6, 13–18, 26–7, 35–7, 51–6, 66–74, 111–12, 118–19).
Monday, October 18
: First short essay due.
Tuesday, October 19
: Coleridge, Aids to Reflection (1825): Elements of Religious Philosophy; Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion, Aphorisms VI and VIII, beginning of Comment to Aphorism X (through “yet it is the condition, the sine quá non” of a Free-will”), and Aphorisms XI and XV (pp. 129–40, 188–9, 200–228, 256–62, 287–8, 294–6).
Thursday, October 21
: Emerson, “Self-Reliance.”
Tuesday, October 26
: Emerson, “The Poet.”
Thursday, October 28
: Emerson, “Experience.”
Tuesday, November 2
: Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women.”
Thursday, November 4
: Fuller, “St. Valentine’s Day,” “American Literature” (beginning, through “on a great scale,” p. 126), “The Fourth of July,” “The Rich Man,” “The Poor Man,” “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain.”
Tuesday, November 9
: Fuller, “A Drive through the Country near Boston”; “Festus” (beginning through p. 237, “extracts,” and p. 254, “The quire is almost filled,” through end); “Sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts.”
Thursday, November 11
: No class (Veterans Day)
Tuesday, November 16
: Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life,” Foreword and §§1–3, 5–6 (Untimely Meditations, pp. 59–77 and 83–95).
Thursday, November 18
: Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as Educator” §§1–2 (pp. 127–36); §§4–5 (pp. 146–161); from §6, the description of the scholar (p. 169, beginning “Science is related to wisdom”—through p. 174, ending “cannot be found in him either.”); §8 (pp. 182–94).
Monday, November 22
: Second short essay due.
Tuesday, November 23
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part One (pp. 39–106).
Thursday, November 25
: No class (Thanksgiving)
Tuesday, November 30
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, PartTwo (pp. 107–172).
Thursday, December 2
: Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part Three (pp. 173–244).
Wednesday, December 8
: Final paper due.

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