Postgraduate Course: The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche MSc (PHIL11122)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Philosophy |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will introduce students to the ideas of Hegel and Nietzsche, and examine the influence these thinkers had on the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The course will focus on reading and understanding key passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. An important background figure on the course will be Kant, and we will begin by reading some sections from his Critique of Pure Reason. We will compare and contrast the ways in which Hegel and Nietzsche both sought to articulate and overcome philosophical problems inherited from Kant. Where helpful, we will also take brief detours into the works of other thinkers who influenced or reacted to Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, such as Fichte, Schelling and Schopenhauer.
The course will run twice per week; students taking the course will attend only one seminar per week. Students will be asked at the beginning of the semester for their preferred seminar, and then they will attend only the seminar at their allocated timeslot.
Shared with the undergraduate course The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche (PHIL10047). |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
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Friday |
| Central | Lecture | 4.01, David Hume Tower | 1-11 | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | or 16:10 - 18:00 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. 4.01, David Hume Tower |
| Additional information |
There are two seminars per week. Students should only attend ONE seminar per week. |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will come to understand:
- The nature of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' in metaphysics, and the problems it was intended to solve
- The role of the following concepts in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: concept; intuition; category; synthesis; apperception; phenomena; noumena
- The role of the following concepts in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: dialectic; the Absolute; sense-certainty; lordship and bondage
- The relationship of Hegel's absolute idealism to Kant's transcendental idealism
- The role of the following concepts in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: genealogy; master/slave moralities; ressentiment; bad conscience; ascetic ideals
- The relationship between ascetic ideals as criticised by Nietzsche and the philosophical systems of Kant and Hegel
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Assessment Information
| One 2500 word essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Syllabus projected to include, but need not be restricted to:
Week 1 - Introduction, Kant's Copernican Revolution
Week 2 - Kant's Transcendental Deduction
Week 3 - From Kant to Hegel
Week 4 - Phenomenology of Spirit: Preface and Introduction
Week 5 - Hegel on consciousness
Week 6 - Hegel on self-consciousness
Week 7 - Hegel recap
Week 8 - Nietzsche's early philosophy: Truth and Lie in an extra-moral sense
Week 9 - Genealogy of Morality: Preface and Essay 1
Week 10 - Genealogy of Morality: Essay 2
Week 11 - Genealogy of Morality: Essay 3
Week 12 - Recap: Nietzsche, Hegel and Kant
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dave Ward
Tel: (0131 6)50 3652
Email: dave.ward@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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