Modern Philosophy B 3501-WISIP-MdrPB
Modern Philosophy B course is devoted to history of philosophy from the second half of XVIIIth century until the end of XIXth century including Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx and Kierkegaard.
The course consists of reading, discussion and commentary of pivotal philosophical texts of late modernity. We involve a great deal od historical context while constantly referring to the contemporary philosophical debates. The course assumes the hermeneutical tradition of Warsaw School of history of ideas.
Type of course
Mode
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: 1) student understands historical nature of the formation of philosophical concepts; 2) student is familiar with ideas and arguments of major modern philosophers.
Skills: 1) student is capable of evaluation of philosophical argumnets; 2) student is capable of intepreting modern philosophical texts in their proper context; 3) student reconstructs wolrdviews and hidden pressupositions
Social comptences: 1) student is aware of a pivotal role of modern philosophical heritage in contemporary social world
Assessment criteria
FROM 2020/2021
Oral exam, active participation in the tutorial (including public presentation) is required in order to acces exam
Permissible number of absences: 2
TO 2019/2020
presence and activity in class; oral exam
Bibliography
I. Immanuel Kant
1. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as a Science
2. Critique of Pure Reason: Preface and Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic (second edition, par.1-8)
3. Critique of Pure Reason: Transcendental Logic: Introduction, Analytic of Concepts (chapter: I,II)
4. Critique of Pure Reason: Transcendental Dialectic (introduction, book I, book II: chapter I)
5. Critique of Pure Reason: Transcendental Dialectic (book II: chapter II,III)
II. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (optional)
6. Concerning the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre
III. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
7. Phenomenology of Spirit: Introduction, Part A: Consciousness
8. Phenomenology of Spirit: Part B: Self-Consciousness
9. Lectures on the Philosophy of History¬: Introduction
IV. Arthur Schopenhauer
10. The World as Will and Representation: § 1-5, § 17-23, § 53-54, § 56-57
V. Adam Smith and Karl Marx
11. A. Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, chapter: 1-3
A. Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (chapters: The social passions, The selfish passions, Justice and Beneficence)
K. Marx Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts 1844: Preface, Wages of Labour, Estranged Labour, Private Property and Communism, The Power Of Money, Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole
12. K. Marx German Ideology: Feuerbach, Capital: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof
K. Marx, F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
VI. Søren Kierkegaard
13. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric by Johannes de Silentio
VII. Auguste Comte
14. A Discourse on the Positive Spirit
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