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Course # 900171HUMH
Credits 6 EC
Prerequisite(s) -
Related AUC Theme(s) -
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Contribution to the general 2.3.1 a, b, c, d; 2.3.2 a, b, c, e, g, h; 2.3.4 a; 2.3.5 a, b, c;
learning outcomes (cf. Aca- 2.3.6 a; 2.3.7 a, b, c, d
demic Standards and Proce-
dures (OER), section 2.3.
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practice them as often as possible.
Attendance/Lateness
Reader [R]:
History of Philosophy
– please order the printed version via Canvas (tab
"Readers")
Contact Information Teacher dr. Asja Szafraniec, via Canvas (or j.d.szafraniec@auc.nl)
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Weekly Programme (subject to change)
1b Fri 9/09 Introduction (2) / HB, pp. 25-39: ‘The First (Greek)
9:00 The Upanishads and Philosopher’ ― ‘The Pre-Socratic
The Pre-Socratics Philosophers (III): The Pluralists’
R: Heraclitus, Selection of
Fragments; Parmenides, Selection of
Fragments
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5a Tue 4/10 Aristotle (2) HB, pp. 67-77: ‘A Footnote to Plato
(and Aristotle)’ ― ‘Mysticism and
Logic in Ancient India’ and
7a Tue NO CLASS
18/10
7b Fri NO CLASS
21/10
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R: Descartes, Meditations I-II
12 b Fri Nietzsche (2) R: The Gay Science (focus on: ‘The Presentation:
25/11 Madman’, ‘The Heaviest Weight’) Kant
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13 a Tue Exam Preparation Submit questions via email to me– Presentation:
29/11 Class will form basis for addressing exam Nietzsche
material in class
13 b Fri EXAM
2/12
R: Sartre, ‘Existentialism Is a
Humanism’