PHIL 3580 – HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: HEGEL TO NIETZSCHE
Raphael Sassower
Philosophy, UCCS
Fall 2014
Thursday 1:40–4:20
This course attempts to provide a broad overview of the 19th century western history of
ideas as it has been recorded in texts, primarily in Europe. Because it is one of the
richest periods in Western thought because of the preservation of texts from the time,
we will attempt a broad survey of major thinkers and their ideas. In doing so, we’ll
encounter many texts that represent trends and movements, but which don’t always
fully conform to simple classification, such as German Idealism or Historical
Materialism. In surveying some of these texts, we’ll see how they respond to the ideals
of the Enlightenment, the quest for and commitment to Reason, and the ways in which
they set the tone for the 20th century in the western hemisphere.
REQUIRED BOOKS: (buy the cheapest copy at Abebooks.com or Amazon.com or
anywhere else as soon as possible, and have them available by the first week)
Patrick Gardiner (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (1969)
G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)—see Blackboard
G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)
Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question” (1843), “The German Ideology” (1846)
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1872)
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women (1869)
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882)
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals (1887)
REQUIREMENTS:
Class participation
(10%)
4 class presentations/papers (3 pages each; two-page summary of major issues, one
page arguments in support and critique); after presentation and feedback, al paper due
the following week
(4x15%=60%)
Final paper (8-10 pages) on any topic that compares the four philosopher’s views; raise
a question, and then provide 2 pages on each view with references from the texts
(30%)
OFFICE HOURS:
Columbine Hall 4059, Wednesday 10-10:45 a.m. and 1:40-4:00 p.m.; Thursday 1:001:40 p.m., and by appointment for the rest of the week rsassower@uccs.edu
NOTE: This syllabus is subject to changes.
SYLLABUS:
August 28:
Introduction
European Enlightenments (Kant, Hume, Rousseau, Smith)
Science, natural and social; Reason and Order (Comte, Darwin,
Whewell ,and Mach; see anthology)
September 4:
September 11:
September 18:
Hegel (see anthology: history, nature, and logic)
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Preface, see Blackboard)
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
September 25:
High Holidays – No Class
October 2:
October 9:
Mill’s On Liberty
Mill’s On the Subjection of Women
October 16:
October 23:
October 30:
Marx, critique of Hegel (see anthology)
Marx’s “On the Jewish Question” and “The German Ideology”
Marx & Engels’ The Communist Manifesto (political economy)
November 6:
Individualism, Religion, Existentialism, and Literature
(Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky; see anthology)
November 13:
November 20:
Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals
November 27:
Thanksgiving – No Class
December 4:
American Pragmatism (James, Peirce, and Dewey; see anthology)
20th Century trends: Logical Positivism to Postmodernism
December 11:
Summary; Final paper due
Grading Scale:
A 100 – 95
B- 83 – 80
D 69 – 60
A- 94 – 90
C+ 79 – 77
F
59 – 0
B+ 89 – 87
C 76 – 74
B
C-
86 – 84
73 – 70
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CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN EURO-AMERICAN THINKERS
David Hume
1711-1776
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778
Adam Smith
1723-1790
Immanuel Kant
1724-1804
Jeremy Bentham
1748-1832
J. G. Fichte
1762-1814
G. W. F. Hegel
1770-1831
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860
William Whewell
1794-1870
August Comte
1798-1857
Ludwig Feuerbach
1804-1872
Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859
J.S. Mill
1806-1873
Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Soren Kierkegaard
1813-1855
Karl Marx
1818-1883
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1821-1881
Ernst Mach
1838-1916
Charles Peirce
1839-1914
William James
1842-1910
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900
Sigmund Freud
1856-1939
John Dewey
1859-1952
Max Weber
1864-1920