Overview Lectures on German Idealism

Introduction to German Idealism: from Kant to Hegel Monday Lecture 1. Introduction to German Idealism -Kants basic views 2. Introduction to German idealism -Hegels basic views A. Immanuel Kant 3. Critique of Pure reason: the basic problems of human knowledge 4. Transcendental Aesthetics: Empfindung, space and time *5. Transcendental Logic: concepts as structures 6. Transcendental Deduction: the transcendental Ego and the Grundsatz 7. Appearance and Thing-in-itself: the meta-physics of transcendental philosophy 8. Kantian ethics: outline of the Critique of Practical Reason 9. The argument for the categorical imperative in the Critique of Practical Reason *10. The Postulates of Morality 11. Kants transformation of Religion into Morality 12. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment -outline 13. Judgments of taste and disinterestedness B. Friedrich Hegel 14. Hegel's system of thought -a 20th century perspective 15. The Phenomenology, it's aims and method according to the Preface 16. Structure of the Phenomenology as a whole -outline of the argument 17. Consciousness 18. Self-Consciousness (introduction) 19. The dialectics of self-consciousness 20. The Phenomenological perspective on the Enlightenment 21. The System or Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences: outline 22. Logic (being, Essence, Concept) 23. Philosophy of Freedom: Lectures on the Philosophy of Right 24. The Philosophy of History C. Assessment 25. The anthropocentric turn: the fate of German Idealism in the 19th century 26. Hegel in contemporary philosophy: from Kojève to Zizek Friday reading 1. What is Enlightenment? (Kant); Dialog on Freedom (Voltaire) 2. Phenomenology -Preface 3. Critique of Pure Reason: Prefaces; B10 -B 30 4. Critique of Pure Reason B33 -B73 *5. Critique of Pure Reason B74 -B116 6. Critique of Pure Reason B117 -B169; B193-197 7. Critique of Pure Reason B294-B315 8. Critique of Practical Reason 3 -32 9. Critique of Practical Reason 35 -71 *10. Critique of Practical Reason 192 -241 11. Religion within the limits of pure reason 12. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, XI -LVIII 13. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, 3 -61 14. Syllabus text 15. Phenomenology: 9 -59 16. Syllabus text 17. Phenomenology: 79 -133 18. Phenomenology: 133-150 19. Phenomenology: 151 -171 20. Phenomenology: 383 -413 21. Encyclopedia Introduction par 1 -18, 572 -577 22. Encyclopedia par.20-25; 84-88; 111-114;159-165; 236-244 23. Encyclopedia: par. 513-552 24. Phil. Of History III, 3, The New Era. 25. Karl Löwith: Hegel and Hegelianism(1931) 26. Kojève: Slavoj Zizek: The Ticklish Subject, p. 70 -125 Note: I might just skip the lectures marked with an * to give some extra time for the assessment. Every week I offer an extra hour to read and interpret various texts.