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Course HUHI 6313.001 Early Modern German Philosophy Professor
Peter K. J. Park
Term
Spring 2010
Meetings
M 4:00-6:45 p.m. Location: JO 4.312
Professor’s Contact Information Office Phone
(972) 883-2152
Cell Phone
(323) 819-2861
Office Location
JO 5.610
Email Address
 peter.park@utdallas.edu
Office Hours
Tues 3-5 p.m. and by appointment, but for students in this course, I am also available before or after the seminar session.
General Course Information
 
Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, & other restrictions
open to M.A. and Ph.D. students
Course Description
German Philosophy from Leibniz to Hegel: Through this course, students will gain a ground-level familiarity with the major themes of early modern German  philosophy through the reading and assessing of its foundational texts. We will study key philosophical works by Leibniz, Christian Thomasius, Kant, Herder, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. A work by Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert will instruct us on Friedrich Schlegel’s thought. While designed as an advanced general introduction to early modern German philosophy, this course lays emphasis on the philosophical projects of Kant and Hegel. This course still does not do justice to the history of early modern German thought as it passes over significant German thinkers, such as Jacob Böhme, Christian Wolff, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Heinrich Jacobi, and others. Students who are looking to fulfill the graduate programs’ language requirements are welcome to use the German or Latin originals of the assigned texts and to write their papers based on them.
Required Texts & Materials
G. W. Leibniz,
 Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
 (Hackett, 1991) ISBN 978-0872201323 Christian Thomasius,
 Essays on Church, State, and Politics
, ed. by Ian Hunter, Frank Grunert, and Thomas Ahnert (Liberty Fund Inc., 2007) ISBN 978-0865974999 I. Kant,
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science, With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
 (Cambridge UP, 2004) ISBN 978-0521535359 I. Kant,
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) ISBN 978-0521626958 I. Kant,
Critique of the Power of Judgment 
 (Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation, 2001) ISBN 978-0521348928 Johann Gottfried Herder,
 Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of  Mankind 
, abridged and with an introd. by Frank E. Manuel (U. of Chicago Press, 1968), avail. at library Reserves. J. G. Fichte,
 Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800)
, ed. and trans., with an Intro. and Notes, by Daniel Breazeale (Hackett, 1994) ISBN: 978-0-87220-239-9 Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert,
Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy
 (SUNY Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0791470848
 
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F. W. J. von Schelling,
System of Transcendental Idealism (1800),
 trans. by Peter Heath (Cambridge UP, 1993) ISBN 978-0813914589 Stephen Houlgate, ed.,
The Hegel Reader 
 (Wiley-Blackwell, 1998) ISBN 978-0631203476
Note:
 These required texts are available for purchase at UTD’s Bookstore and at Off-Campus Books, 561 W. Campbell Road, #201. The text by Herder is out of  print. The UTD library’s copy will be available at the Reserves desk.
Suggested References
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Philosophy/History of Ideas Howard Caygill,
 A Kant Dictionary
 (Blackwell, 2000) (on-line version avail. through UTD’s library web page)
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy The Columbia History of Western Philosophy  Dictionary of the History of Ideas
 http://etext.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html
 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 (available through the McDermott Library) Oxford References Online (through the UT Dallas McDermott Library website. Under “ebooks”.)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Assignments & Academic Calendar
 
1/11
Introduction to the course
1/18
MLK Holiday,
 NO CLASS 1/25 Reading
: G. W. Leibniz,
 Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
, pp. v-xi, 1-81
2/01 Reading
: Christian Thomasius,
 Essays on Church, State, and Politics
, pp. ix-xxiv, 1-206
Optional reading
: Thomasius, pp. 207-278
2/08 Reading
: Kant,
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science, With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
, pp. ix-xliv, 1-134
2/15 Reading
: Kant,
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science, With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
, pp. 135-211
2/22 Reading
: Kant,
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
, pp. vii-xxx, 1-67; Kant,
Critique of the Power of Judgment 
, pp. ix-lii, 1-230
3/01 Finish reading
: Kant,
Critique of the Power of Judgment 
, pp. 1-230
3/08 Reading
: Kant,
Critique of the Power of Judgment 
, pp. 231-349
3/15 - 3/20 SPRING BREAK 3/22 Reading
: Johann Gottfried Herder,
 Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind 
, abridged and with an introd. by Frank E. Manuel (U. of Chicago Press, 1968), pp. TBA [avail. on eLearning]
3/29 Reading
: J. G. Fichte,
 Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800)
, pp. vii-xxxii, 1-118, 141-154
4/5 Reading
: Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert,
Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of  Romantic Philosophy
, pp. 1-174
4/12 Reading
: F. W. J. von Schelling,
System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)
, trans. by Peter Heath (Cambridge UP, 1993), pp. TBA
4/19 Reading
:
 The
 
 Hegel Reader 
, pp. 45-123 (
Phenomenology of Spirit 
)
4/26 Reading
:
 The Hegel Reader 
, pp. 127-174, 253-318 (
 Encyclopedia
logic;  philosophy of nature; philosophy of subjective spirit)
5/03 Reading
:
The Hegel Reader 
, pp. 321-415 (philosophy of right; philosophy of
 
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Optional reading
:
The Hegel Reader 
, pp. 419-508 (philosophy of Absolute Spirit: aesthetics,
Philosophy of Religion
)
Course Policies Grading (credit) Criteria
regular attendance and participation (25% of final grade), 14 one-to-two-page response papers (75%)
Late Work
You may try to negotiate an extension.
Class Attendance
Required.
Classroom Citizenship
Please arrive on time. Please maintain the highest level of civil and professional speech during seminar sessions.
Field Trip Policies Off-Campus Instruction & Course Activities
Off-campus, out-of-state, and foreign instruction and activities are subject to state law and University policies and procedures regarding travel and risk-related activities. Information regarding these rules and regulations may be found at the website address http://www.utdallas.edu/BusinessAffairs/Travel_Risk_Activities.htm.   Additional information is available from the office of the school dean. Below is a description of any travel and/or risk-related activity associated with this course.
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 A to Z Guide
, which is provided to all registered students each academic year. The University of Texas at Dallas administers student discipline within the  procedures of recognized and established due process. Procedures are defined and described in the
 Rules and Regulations, Series 50000, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System,
and in Title V, Rules on Student Services and Activities of the university’s
 Handbook of Operating Procedures
. Copies of these rules and regulations are available to students in the Office of the Dean of Students, where staff members are available to assist students in interpreting the rules and regulations (SU 1.602, 972/883-6391) and online at http://www.utdallas.edu/judicialaffairs/UTDJudicialAffairs-HOPV.html A student at the university neither loses the rights nor escapes the responsibilities of citizenship. He or she is expected to obey federal, state, and local laws as well as the Regents’ Rules, university regulations, and administrative rules. Students are subject to discipline for violating the standards of conduct whether such conduct takes place on or off campus, or whether civil or criminal penalties are also imposed for such conduct.
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