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Schedule
Humanities 121 and Philosophy
231
Spring, 2005
Syllabi for both
classes listing requirements
“Text”
refers to the Western Humanities Vol. II:
The Renaissance to the Present 5th Edition.
“Reader” refers to the Readings
in Western Humanities Vol. II: The Renaissance to the Present 5th
Edition.
MP refers to Modern Philosophy, Philosophical Classics Vol. III
19th refers to Nineteenth
Century Philosophy, Philosophical Classics Vol. IV
20th refers to Twentieth
Century Philosophy, Philosophical Classics Vol. V
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Week One
1/17-1/19
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Course
Introduction
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Wednesday
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Introduction to Class. A discussion of the main
concepts and themes that we will explore in our examination of the
material for this course. There will also be a brief overview of Western
history and culture before 1400.
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Week Two 1/24-1/26
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The
Renaissance: 1400-1560
A (new)
Vision of Humanity
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Monday
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A) The Western European Debt to the Islamic World
B) The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
C) The Beginnings of
the Italian Renaissance
Viewing: Islam: Empire of Faith, Part 3
Readings: Text, Chapter 11 and Reader C11
(all)
Assignment: Describe Botticelli's
" The Birth of Venus." Discuss the ways in which this
painting is characteristic of Renaissance painting. Describe your
reaction to this painting. Due on Wednesday
Link to the Uffizi
Gallery
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Wednesday
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A)
The Socio-Political Configuration of Europe in the 15th
& 16th Century –Nation States and Discovery
B)
The Intellectual Movements of the Early Renaissance –Humanism,
History and the revival of Platonism.
C)
The Art of the Italian Renaissance.
Discussion
of art and readings for today
Readings:
Text, Chapter 12 and Reader, C12
(Stampa and Castiglione). Selections from Columbus’ Journals (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html).
Alberti's
Notebooks
Art
History Resources on the Web
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Week Three 1/31-2/2
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The
Renaissance: 1500-1600
A (new)
Vision of Human Society
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Monday
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A)
The Socio-Political Configuration of Europe in the 15th
Century –Nation States and Discovery.
B)
The Intellectual Movements of the Early Renaissance –Humanism and
History
C)
The Art of the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance
Discussion
of art and readings for today.
Readings:
More, selections from Utopia.
Machiavelli, selections from The
Prince
Notes and
Reading Questions on Machiavelli (exact assignment included)
Notes and Reading
Questions on More (exact assignment included)
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Wednesday
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Continuation of Focus—Discussion of More and
Machiavelli.
Text, C13 up to p. 364 and Reader, C13 (Montaigne,
Rabelais, Cervantes).
Paper assignment
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Week Four 2/7-2/9
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The
Reformation (100-1700)
A (new)
Vision of the Relation to the Divine
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Monday
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A)
The History of the Reformation –Luther, Calvin, and the
Splintering of the Universal Church.
B)
The Counter-Reformation –The Jesuits and the Inquisition.
C)
Late Mannerism
Readings:
Text, C13 & C14, Martin Luther, 95 Theses and On Christian
Liberty (found at: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-luther.html)
and Calvin, Selections from the Institutes (http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/)
and selections from Milton’s Paradise Lost (found at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/intro/index.shtml).
Discussion
of art and readings for today.
Notes on the
Reformation and on Milton
Study Guide for the First
Exam distributed
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Wednesday
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Discussion
of Milton, Luther, Calvin, et. al. Primary emphasis on Milton.
Paper assignment due
Extra Credit
Opportunity: Douglas Berger presents on his new book on India and
Schopenhauer.....Friday, February 14, 11:00, 1606 DP
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Week Five 2/14-2/16
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The Baroque
Era and the Scientific Revolution (1500-1700)
A (new)
Conception of Nature
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Monday
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Exam 1
A) Absolute monarchies
B) Baroque art and architecture
C) Baroque music
Discussion of art and readings
for today.
Readings: Text,
Chapter 14 and Reader C14 (Moliere)
Listening: Bach and Vivaldi
Baroque Art
from Art History Resources on the Web
Baroque
Art Site of Interest
Link
to Andrea Pozzo's Work
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Wednesday
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A) Western Europe and the World
B) Genocide in the America
C) The Slave Trade
Notes on
Slavery and Reading Assignments
Paper Assignment
#4 due
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Week Six 2/21-2/23
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The Baroque
Era and the Scientific Revolution Continued (1500-1700)
A (new)
Conception of Nature
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Monday
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NO CLASS
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Wednesday
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A)
How to organize knowledge: breaking down barriers between
disciplines and scholastic authoritarianism.
B)
The Newtonian World –the nature as a machine.
C)
Rationalism and Empiricism: The Search for a Universal (Human)
Science.
Discussion of Bacon and Hobbes
(primarily).
Notes
on Bacon, Hobbes, and Descartes with Reading Assignments
Paper Assignment #
5 due
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Week Seven 2/28-3/2
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The Baroque
Era Continued and the Development of Liberalism
(1600-1760)
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Monday
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Discussion
of Hobbes continued
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Wednesday
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Focus on Descartes
Study Guide for the Second Exam
Review the Cultures
Week schedule for possible participation and extra credit.
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Week Eight 3/7-3/9
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The
Development of Liberalism Continued
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Monday
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A)
Liberalism and Secularism
B)
New Conceptions of Freedom in Rationalism/Empiricism debate –new
political science.
C)
Lockean Liberalism –Natural Freedom, Natural Rights, Imperialism
and Slavery.
Reading Notes and
Assignments for Locke
Paper Assignment # 6 due
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Wednesday
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Exam 2
Introduction to the Enlightenment
Readings: Text, Chapter 16.
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Week Nine 3/14-3/16
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Spring
Break
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Monday
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NO CLASS
Readings:
Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (in MP) and Reader
C16 (Wollstonecraft, Diderot, Voltaire) during this break.
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Wednesday
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NO CLASS
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Week Ten 3/21-3/23
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The
Enlightenment
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Monday
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Basic Features of the Enlightenment.
A)
The Power of Reason –The Failure of Faith
B)
Art in the Enlightenment
C)
Power Politics
Read: Kant,
“An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (Reader, 134-138);
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman (Reader, 138-141); and, Voltaire, Candide (Reader, 147-155). These are all relatively short
selections. Please read these over break.
Read: Text,
Chapter 16 “The Age of Reason”
Discussion:
Readings and Art.
Reading Notes and Assignments on Kant,
Wollstonecraft, and Voltaire
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Wednesday
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Discussion:
Hume’s Dialogues
Reading Notes on Hume
Assignment # 7 due.
Continue Discussion of Art
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Week Eleven 3/28-3/30
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The
Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution
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Monday
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Reactions to the Enlightenment
A)
Political Revolutions
B)
From Neo-Classicism to Romanticism
C)
Romanticism and Philosophy (the birth of German Idealism)
Read: Jefferson,
Declaration of the Rights of Man,
Keats, Mary Shelley (in Reader)
Read: Text,
Chapter 17 “Revolution, Reaction and Cultural Response”
Discussion:
Poetry, Politics and Art
Remember that the coming weekend is the last weekend for A
Midsummer Night's Dream. You need to see this play since you
will be asked to do a reaction paper on the staging of this play.
Student tickets are $12.
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Wednesday
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Discussion of
Kant, Prolegomena and
continued discussion of poetry
Read: Kant,
Prolegomena to Any Future
Metaphysics (Selections)
Reading Notes on Kant's Prolegomena
Assignment # 8 due.
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Week Twelve 4/4-4/6
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The
Bourgeoisie
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Monday
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Capitalism and Liberalism
A)
Continued Development of German Romanticism and Idealism (The
Bourgeois Subject and its critics)
B)
The Political Economy of Liberalism and Smith on capitalism
C) New Departures in Philosophy
Read: Read
selections from Goethe's Faust in Reader and selections from Adam
Smith's The
Wealth of Nations (Introduction and Book 1, Chapter 1) on
the web
Read: Text,
Chapter 18 “The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie”
Discussion of
Faust and art
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Wednesday
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Read: Hegel, “Self-Certainty” & “Lordship and Bondage”
from The Phenomenology of Spirit in 19th Century Philosophy.
Discussion of
Hegel
Reading Notes on Hegel and Kierkegaard
Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
Assignment # 9 due
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Week Thirteen 4/11-4/13
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A
Challenge from the Working Class
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Monday
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Capitalism and Liberalism
A)
Critical Analysis of Liberalism
B)
Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
C)
Art and Music as a response to Capital
Read:
Selections from Darwin, Dickinson (other poems), Flaubert,
Dickens, Douglas, Thoreau, Dostoyevsky in the Reader.
Discussion of
Reader selections and realism in art
Study
Guide for the 3rd Exam
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Wednesday
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Read: Marx,
all the selections in 19th Century Philosophy (especially focusing
on The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
and The German Ideology selections). Also read Marx's
very brief "Theses
on Feuerbach" on the web.
Summary of Marx's
Theory of Alienation
Summary of Marx's
Theory of Ideology
Assignment # 10
due
Discussion of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism
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Week Fourteen 4/18-4/20
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Nineteenth
Century Music and Early Modernism
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Monday
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Exam Three
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Wednesday
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Read: Text,
Chapter 19 “The Age of Early Modernism”
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Week Fifteen 4/25-4/27
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Nietzsche
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Monday
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Read: Nietzsche,
selections from Birth of Tragedy,
selections from Zarathustra. (Go
buy the book –or get it out of the library. You will need the Walter
Kaufmann translation.)
Nietzsche reading assignment and A. R.
P. assignment
Discussion of
Nietzsche.
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Wednesday
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Read:
Freud, Kafka in the Reader
Read: Text
Chapter 20 “The Age of the Masses and the Zenith of Modernism”
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Week Sixteen 5/2-5/4
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The
Twentieth Century
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Monday
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Read: Text
Chapter 21, “The Age of Anxiety and Beyond”
Read: Sartre selections in 20th Century
Philosophy
Reading
Notes on Sartre
A.R.P. # 12 due
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Wednesday
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Read: Selections
from Woolf, Joyce, and Simone de Beauvoir in the Reader
Discussion of
reading selections and art
Study
Guide for the 4th Exam
Notes
about finishing the seminar
Final Exam
Questions
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Saturday
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Field Trip!
Meet at the front steps of the Art Institute at 10:00 AM sharp.
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Week Seventeen 5/9-5/11
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Reflections
on Western Culture
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Monday
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4th Exam
General Reflections on “What It All Means.”
Read: Selections from James Baldwin and Malcolm
X/Alex Haley in the Reader
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Wednesday
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Final Exam
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Friday
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Honors Banquet
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