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Tuesday, January 7
- : (no reading, first class).
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Thursday, January 9
- : Schelling, System: Foreword, Introduction, and Part
One (pp. 1–33).
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Tuesday, January 14
- : Schelling, System: Part Two; Part Three, Introductory,
I, and II, beginning of First Epoch (pp. 34–60).
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Thursday, January 16
- : Schelling, System: Part Three, II, Third Epoch; Part
Four, beginning, up until (but not including) “Additional Remarks”
(pp. 134-171).
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Tuesday, January 21
- : Schelling System: Part Four, “Additional Remarks”
and beginning of Problem E; Part Four, IIIF; Part Five; Part Six
(pp. 171–7 and 212–236).
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Thursday, January 23
- : Coleridge, The Friend (1818), Volume III, first part:
Essays IV, V, and X (on the Principles of Method).
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Tuesday, January 28
- : 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).
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Thursday, January 30
- : 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).
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Tuesday, February 11
- : no class due to strike.
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Thursday, February 13
- : Emerson, “Experience” (you may also want to read
“Fate” and “Power.”, although those are no longer required readings.)
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Thursday, February 27
- : Nietzsche, “On the Uses and Disadvantages of
History for Life,” Foreword and §§1–3, 5–6 (Untimely Meditations,
pp. 59–77 and 83–95).
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Tuesday, March 3
- : 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).
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Thursday, March 5
- : Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part One (pp. 39–106).
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Tuesday, March 10
- : Nietzsche, Zarathustra, PartTwo (pp. 107–172).
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Thursday, March 12
- : Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Part Three (pp. 173–244).