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1 Government)1052:) History)and)Freedom)in)German)Idealism) Fall)201 ).,.,)10 ;) ProfessorMichaelRosen(Instructor) Office:CGISNorth,R om419. Officehours:Wed2 3pmorbyappointment I. Course Description II. 1/6 (TeachingFellow) Office:CGISNorth,Room453. Officehours:byappointment Course Requirements and Policies FirstPaper(6_9pages) 20% 20% SecondPaper(8_12pages) 30% Take_HomeFinalAssignment 30% Requirements)for)Undergraduates) Thereadingsinthiscoursewillbothrequireandrewardyourpatience.Youshouldplantodevotetime eachweektocarefulstudy,andyouareaskedtoprepareregularlyforyourthoughtfulparticipationin section. Inaddition,youareaskedtowriteashorterpaperof6_9pages,dueatthebeginningoflectureon,October1 th,andalongerpaperof8_12pages,dueatthebeginningofourlastmeetingon,.papertopicsconsistingofachoiceofquestionswillbedistributedin advance.youmaydesignyourowntopicforthelongerpaper,providedthatyoudiscussyourtopicin advancewithoneoftheteachingstaff. ThefinalassignmentwillbedistributedduringReadingPeriod,andwillbedueelectronicallyforty_eight hoursthereafter.theassignmentwillconsistofalistofquestionscoveringmaterialdiscussedin lecturesandsections.youwillbeaskedtochoosetwoquestionsandtorespondinshortessayform. Requirements)for)Graduate)Students) Courserequirementsforgraduatestudentswillbeagreeduponduringthefirstgraduatesection.

2 III. Timetable [Readings(are(assigned(by(lecture;(consult(the(list(below(to(see(what(will(be(covered(in(section.]( ( Week(1( Lecture1: IntroductoryLecture., Week(2 Lecture2: Rousseau. State,Self,Freedom,God.,Sep Lecture3: TurgotandSmith. Harmony,Progress,History. 2/6,S (! Week(3 Lecture4: Kant. Kant scopernicanrevolution.,sep1 Lecture5: Kant. TheCategoricalImperative.,Sep1 ) Week(4( Lecture6: Kant. TheProblemofFreedom.,Sep2 Lecture7: Kant. Politics,History,Evil.,Sep2 Week(5( Lecture8: HerderandHamann. Language. Lecture9: Herder. History.,Oct Week(6 Week(7 Lecture10: Lecture11: Week(8 Lecture1 : Lecture1 : TheOldestSystem_Program..,Oct, Oct,Oct1,Oct1 Week(9 Lecture1 : ArtandFreedom.,Oct Lecture1 :, Week(10 Lecture1 :,Nov Lecture1 : Wed,Nov Week(11 Lecture : Lecture : Schiller. TheState and Freedom. Fichte. Freedom,Morality,andtheState.! (First!Paper!due!at!beginning!of!lecture!on!,!Oct!1 ) Lecture1 : Hegel.. Hegel.. Mon,Nov1 Wed,Nov1

3 3/6 Week(12,Nov,Nov Lecture2 : (!(Second!Paper!due!at!beginning!of!lecture!on!,!! ) IV. Course Readings Location)of)Course)Readings) Alloftherequiredandsuggestedreadingsforthecoursewillbemadeavailableelectronicallyonthe coursewebsite. Inaddition,copiesofthefollowingworkshavebeenrequestedattheHarvardCoop: Hegel,G.W.F.Hegel:(Elements(of(the(Philosophy(of(Right.Ed.AllenW.Wood.CambridgeUniversity Press,1991. Herder,J.G.Herder:(Philosophical(Writings.Ed.MichaelForster.CambridgeUniversityPress,2002. Kant,Immanuel.Critique(of(Pure(Reason.Ed.PaulGuyerandAllenW.Wood.CambridgeUniversity Press,1998.(.Kant:(Political(Writings.Ed.H.S.Reiss.2ded.CambridgeUniversityPress,1991. Finally,manyoftherequiredandsuggestedreadingsforthecoursewillbemadeavailableonreserveat Lamont.Studentsareadvisedtocheckthecoursewebsiteforacompletelistofreadingsonreserve. Secondary)Sources) Forthosewhowishtoconsultsecondarysources,alistofrecommendedworkscanbefoundonthe coursewebsite,andtherelevantbookswillbeputonreserve. ). Schedule of Readings IntroductoryLecture.() Required: None. Recommended: HeinrichHeine,On(the(History(of(Religion(and(Philosophy(in(Germany,ed. John Snodgrass(StateUniversityofNewYorkPress,1986),PartIII,pp.105_162. Lecture2 : Week(1

4 2. Rousseau. State,Self,Freedom,God.(,Sep ) Required: Discourse(on(the(Origins(of(Inequality(excerpts),i,chap.5. The(Social(Contract((excerpts),ibid.,chap.12. Recommended: Discourse(on(the(Arts(and(Sciences(excerpts),ibid.,chap.4. Emile((excerpts),ibid.,ch. 14. Confessions((excerpts),ibid.,chap Turgot,Smith. Harmony,Progress,History.(, ) Required: Turgot, APhilosophicalReviewoftheSuccessiveAdvancesoftheHumanMind, in RonaldMeek,ed.,Turgot(on(Progress,(Sociology(and(Economics(Cambridge UniversityPress,1973),pp.41_59.) 4. Kant. Kant scopernicanrevolution.(,sep ) Required: Kant,Critique(of(Pure(Reason,ed.PaulGuyerandAllenWood(CambridgeUniversity Press,1998): PrefacetotheFirstEdition ; PrefacetotheSecondEdition ; Introduction ; I.( TranscendentalDoctrineofElements ),SecondPart( Transcendental Logic ),BookI( AnalyticofConcepts ),Chap2( OntheDeductionofthePure ConceptsoftheUnderstanding ),Section1[13])( OnthePrinciplesof TranscendentalDeductioninGeneral ),pp.219_ Kant. TheCategoricalImperative.(,Sep ) Required: Recommended: Kant,Groundwork(of(the(Metaphysics(of(Morals,ed.ChristineKorsgaard (CambridgeUniversityPress,1997),SectionsI&II,pp.1_51. Editor sintroductionbychristinekorsgaard. 6. Kant. TheProblemofFreedom.(,Sep ). Required: Hume,EnquiryConcerning(Human(Understanding,ed.P.H.Nidditch,3ded. (ClarendonPress,1975), 8( OfLibertyandNecessity ),pp.80_103. Kant,Groundwork,SectionIII,pp.52_ Kant. Politics,History,Evil.(,Sep ) Required: Kant,Perpetual(Peace:(A(Philosophical(Sketch,inH.S.Reiss,ed.,Kant:(Political( Writings,2nded.(CambridgeUniversityPress,1991),pp.93_130.) Kant, OntheCommonSaying: ThisMaybeTrueinTheory,ButItDoesNotApplyin Practice,PartII( OntheRelationshipofTheorytoPracticeinPoliticalRight ),in ibid,pp.73_86. 4/6

5 8. HerderandHamann. Language.(, ) Required: Herder, TreatiseontheOriginofLanguage, inmichaelforster,ed.,herder:( Philosophical(Writings(CambridgeUniversityPress,2002),pp.97_105&127_164.) Hamann, MetacritiqueonthePurismofReason, injamesschmidt,ed.,what(is( Enlightenment?(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1996),pp.154_67.) 9. Herder. History.(,Oct ) Required: )Herder, Ideas(for(the(Philosophy(of(History(of(Humanity, PartIII,Book15,Chap5,( int.churchill,ed.,outlines(of(a(philosophy(of(the(history(of(man(london,1802). 10. Schiller. TheStateandFreedom.(,Oct ) Required: Schiller,On(the(Aesthetic(Education(of(Man:(In(a(Series(of(Letters,ed.Elizabeth WilkinsonandL.A.Willoughby(ClarendonPress,1982),Letters3_ Fichte. Introduction.(,Oct ) Required: Fichte, ReviewofAenesidemus, indanielbreazeale,ed.,fichte:(early( Philosophical(Writings(CornellUniversityPress,1988),(pp.59_77. Recommended: Fichte, AnnalsofPhilosophicalTone, inibid.,pp.341_354. K.L.Reinhold, TheFoundationofPhilosophicalKnowledge, (excerpts)ingeorge digiovanniandh.s.harris,eds.,between(kant(and(hegel:(texts(in(the( Development(of(PostWKantian(Idealism,rev.ed.(Hackett,2000),pp.51_ Fichte. Freedom,Morality,andtheState.(,Oct1 ) Required: SomeLecturesconcerningtheScholar svocation, inbreazeale,ed.,fichte:(early( Philosophical(Writings,pp.144_ Schelling. HistoryandFreedom.(,Oct Required: Schelling, OftheIasthePrincipleofPhilosophy,OrontheUnconditionalinHuman Knowledge, inbriano ConnorandGeorgMohr,eds.,German(Idealism:(An( Anthology(and(Guide(UniversityofChicagoPress,2007),pp.64_ TheOldestSystem_Programme.(,Oct2 ) Required: 15. ArtandFreedomI.(,Oct ) Required: Recommended: TheOldestSystem_ProgrammeofGermanIdealism infrederickbeiser,ed.,the( Early(Political(Writings(of(the(German(Romantics(CambridgeUniversityPress, 1996),pp.3_5. Kant,Critique(of(Judgement(excerpts),inAlbertHofstadterandRichardKuhns, eds.,philosophies(of(art(and(beauty:(selected(readings(in(aesthetics(from(plato(to( Heidegger(ModernLibrary,1964),pp.277_313. Kant,Critique(of(Judgement(excerpts),ibid.,pp.313_343. 5/6

6 16. ArtandFreedomII.(,Oct ) Required: Recommended: Schiller,On(the(Aesthetic(Education(of(Man:(In(a(Series(of(Letters,Letters13_15. Schelling,System(of(Transcendental(Idealism((excerpts),inibid.,pp.344_ NatureandNaturphilosophie.(, ) Required: Recommended: 18. Hegel. Philosophy.(,Nov ) Required: Kant,Critique(of(Judgment, 61_68, CritiqueofTeleologicalJudgment, in O ConnorandMohr,eds.,German(Idealism,pp.347_64. Schelling, IntroductiontotheOutlineofaSystemofthePhilosophyofNature,Or ontheconceptofspeculativephysicsandtheinternalorganisationofasystemof thisscience, inibid.,pp.367_79. Hegel,Elements(of(the(Philosophy(of(Right,ed.AllanWood(CambridgeUniversity Press,1991),Preface. 19. Hegel. FreedomandtheSelf.(,Nov ) Required: Hegel. TheState.(,Nov1 ) Required: Hegel. History.(,Nov ) Required: Hegel,Philosophy(of(Right, 1 _ Hegel,Philosophy(of(Right, 257_ Hegel,Lectures(on(the(Philosophy(of(World(History,trans.J.Sibree(Prometheus Books,1991), Introduction,pp. _. (,Nov ) Required: 6/6

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