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”).

• Philebus reading
• Parmenides reading
• Physics 3 reading
• Physics 8 reading
• Metaph. 3 reading
• Metaph. 9 reading

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.

• Proclus reading (PDF)
• Thomas reading
• Scotus reading (part 1)
• Scotus reading (part 2)

Tuesday, April 17

: Descartes, Third Meditation; Locke, Essay, 2.4, 2.13.4–6, 2.16.1–3 and 2.17.

• Descartes reading (PDF)
• Locke reading, ch. 4
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• Locke reading, ch. 16
• Locke reading, ch. 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).

• Baumgarten reading (PDF)
• Inaugural Dissertation reading (PDF)
• Reflexionen reading (PDF)

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).

• first KpV reading (PDF)
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Tuesday, May 29

: Continued discussion of the above; KpV, Remark II to §3 (Ak. 5:25–6); MdS, §13 (Ak. 6:262).

• second KpV reading (PDF)
• MdS reading (PDF)

Aesthetics

Thursday, May 31

: KU, Analytic of the Sublime (Ak. 5:244–266).

• KU reading

Tuesday, June 5

: KU, §59 (Ak. 5:351–3); Matherne, “Imagining Freedom: Kant on Symbols of Sublimity.”

• Second KU reading
• Matherne reading

Tuesday, June 12

: final paper due.