Readings

Tuesday, April 3: : no reading, ﬁrst class.
Thursday, April 5: : no class, due to the last two days of Passover.
Background
Tuesday, April 10: : Plato Philebus 16c–27b, Parmenides 137c–e; Aristotle, Physics 3.4–8.202b30–208a23, 8.10.266a10–24, Metaph. 3.4.999a24–b20 (starting “In this connection there is a diﬃculty”), 9.6.1048b9–17 (starting “Inﬁnity and void”).
Thursday, April 12: : Proclus, Elements of Theology, §§84–96 and 138; Thomas Aquinas, De pot. 1.2; John Duns Scotus Ordinatio 1.8.1.3 nn. 113–19 and 141.
Tuesday, April 17: : Descartes, Third Meditation; Locke, Essay, 2.4, 2.13.4–6, 2.16.1–3 and 2.17.
Thursday, April 19: : Baumgarten, Metaphysics, §§14–15, 69, 109–112, 155–64, 246–64; Kant, Inaugural Dissertation, §1 (Ak. 2:387–9); Reﬂexionen 3899 (Ak. 17:333), 4243–49, 4252–3 (Ak. 17:477–83), 6034–5 (Ak. 18:428–9); KrV, footnote to B201 (in Kemp Smith this is note a on pp. 197–8).
Theoretical Philosophy
Tuesday, April 24: : KrV, Aesthetic, §§1–6 (B33–53); §8 Parts II (B66–9) and IV (B71–2).
Thursday, April 26: : KrV, Phenomena and Noumena (B294–315).
Tuesday, May 1: : KrV, Concepts of Pure Reason (B366–96).
Thursday, May 3: : KrV, Introduction to the Dialectical Inferences (B396–8) and Antinomy, §1 (B432–48).
Tuesday, May 8: : KrV, Antinomy, §2 (B448–89).
Thursday, May 10: : KrV, Antinomy, §§7 and 8, and §9 through the end of the Concluding Note on the Solution of the Mathematical-Transcendental Ideas (B526–60).
Tuesday, May 15: : KrV, Antinomy, end of §9 (B560–95).
Thursday, May 17: : KrV, Ideal, Sections 1–3 (B595–619).
Tuesday, May 22: : KrV, Regulative Employment of the Ideas (B670–96).
Practical Philosophy
Thursday, May 24: : KpV, Incentives of Pure Practical Reason (Ak. 5:71–89); Guevara, “The Incentives of Pure Pratical Reason,”h. 3 of Kant’s Theory of Moral MotivationGuevara reading (PDF).
Tuesday, May 29: : Continued discussion of the above; KpV, Remark II to §3 (Ak. 5:25–6); MdS, §13 (Ak. 6:262).
Aesthetics
Thursday, May 31: : KU, Analytic of the Sublime (Ak. 5:244–266).
Tuesday, June 5: : KU, §59 (Ak. 5:351–3); Matherne, “Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity.”
Tuesday, June 12: : ﬁnal paper due.