What is the Human Being?

Course Packet Contents

Week Two

• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood, Cambridge University Press, 1998; ISBN: 978-0-521-65729-7), pp. 106-124, 136-152, 174-177. (In the original German, the page numbers are Bvii-Bxliv, B1-B30, A22/B37-A25/B41.)
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood, Cambridge University Press, 1998; ISBN: 978-0-521-65729-7), pp. 304-10, 484-9, 511-14, 532-46. (In the original German, the page numbers are B232-B244, A444/B472-A451/B479, A491/B519-A496/B525, A532/B560-A558/B586.)

Week Three

• Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy (translated and edited by Mary Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1996; ISBN: 0-521-65408-4), pp. 43-95, 162-64, 173-80, 370-87, 512-18. (These pages include selections from Kant’s Groundwork 4:387-447; Critique of Practical Reason 5:28-30, 42-50; and Metaphysics of Morals 6:211-231, 379-86.)

Week Four

• Immanuel Kant, Practical Philosophy (translated and edited by Mary Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1996; ISBN: 0-521-65408-4), pp. 228-41 (These pages include selections from Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason 5: 110-126.)
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment (edited by Paul Guyer, Cambridge University Press, 2000; ISBN: 0-521-34892-7), pp. 308-36 (In the German Academy Edition, the page numbers are 5:442-473.)
• Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (edited by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, Cambridge University Press, 1998; ISBN: 0-521-59964-4), pp. 45-72, 105-109. (In the German Academy Edition, the page numbers are 6:19-52, 93-8.)

Week Five

• Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, Education (edited by Robert Louden and Günter Zöller, Cambridge University Press, 2007; ISBN: 0-521-45250-2), pp. 163-71, 107-120. These pages include selections from Kant’s “Idea for a universal history” (8:15-30) and “Conjectural Beginning of Human History” (8:107-18.)
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment (edited by Paul Guyer, Cambridge University Press, 2000; ISBN: 0-521-34892-7), pp. 297-303. In the German Academy Edition, the page numbers are 5:429-36)
• Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, Education (edited by Robert Louden and Günter Zöller, Cambridge University Press, 2007; ISBN: 0-521-45250-2), pp. 40-62, 82-97, 195-218, 399-406. These pages include selections from Kant’s Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime (2:228-255), “Of the different races of human beings” (2:427-443), and “On the use of teleological principles in philosophy” (8:158-184), and selections from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (7: 303-310).

Week Six

• Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History, Education (edited by Robert Louden and Günter Zöller, Cambridge University Press, 2007; ISBN: 0-521-45250-2), pp. 231-242, 291-94, 353-56, 376-84, 389-92, 416-29. (These sections are from Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. In the German Academy Edition, the page numbers are 7:117-131, 182-85, 251-54, 276-85, 292-295, 321-333)

Week Eight we will read Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003), focusing on chapters 3, 5 (pp. 156-66), and 7-10. This book is not included in the course packet.

Week Nine

• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 (2d ed); ISBN: 0-226-45808-3), pp. 43-51, 92-135.
• Michel Foucault, “The Subject and Power” and “On the Genealogy of Ethics,” in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (2d edition, by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, University of Chicago Press: 1983; ISBN: 0-226-16312-1), pp. 208-52.

Week Ten

• Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (Mariner Books edition, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005; ISBN: 0-618-61955-0), pp. 1-20, 130-172.
• Clifford Geertz, “Anti-Anti-Relativism” in Available Light (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-691-08956-6), pp. 42-67.
• Clifford Geertz, xxx

Week Eleven

• Johannes Climacus (Soren Kierkegaard), “Truth is Subjectivity” In: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (trans. Howard and Edna Hong, Princeton University Press: 1992), pp. 189-210.
• Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (translated by Joan Stambaugh, SUNY Press: 1996; ISBN: 0-7914-2678-5), pp. 3-7, 9-12, 39-42, 172-78, 272-277).
• Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism,” in Existentialism and Human Emotions (trans. Bernard Frechtman, New York: Citadel Press, 1993, ISBN: 0-8065-0902-3), pp. 9-51.
• Optional: Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” in Basic Writings (ed. David Krell, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008, ISBN: 0-061-62701-1), pp. 213-66.
• Emmanuel Levinas, “Substitution” in Basic Philosophical Writings (ed. Adrian Peperzak et. al., Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, ISBN: 0-253-21079-8), pp. 79-96.

Week Twelve

• Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN: 978-0-521-36781-3), pp. 3-22, 73-95.
• Aladair MacIntyre, After Virtue (3^rd edition, South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, ISBN: 0-26-803504-0), pp. 204-225.
• Jürgen Habermas, “xxx” from Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (xxx), pp. xxx.
• Christine Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 1-18, 90-130.

Week Thirteen

• Augustine, Confessions (trans., R. S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin Classics, 1961, ISBN: 0-14-044114-X), pp. 27-33.
• Students should also reread from Week 4: Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (edited by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, Cambridge University Press, 1998; ISBN: 0-521-59964-4), pp. 45-72, 105-109. (In the German Academy Edition, the page numbers are 6:19-52, 93-8.)
• Students should also read Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York: Penguin Classics, 2006, ISBN: 0-14-303988-1)