Postgraduate Course: The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche MSc (PHIL11122)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will introduce students to the ideas of Hegel and Nietzsche, and examine the influence these thinkers had on the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The course will focus on reading and understanding key passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. An important background figure on the course will be Kant, and we will begin by reading some sections from his Critique of Pure Reason. We will compare and contrast the ways in which Hegel and Nietzsche both sought to articulate and overcome philosophical problems inherited from Kant. Where helpful, we will also take brief detours into the works of other thinkers who influenced or reacted to Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, such as Fichte, Schelling and Schopenhauer.
Shared with the undergraduate course The Early Continentals: Hegel and Nietzsche (PHIL10047).
For courses co-taught with undergraduate students and with no remaining undergraduate spaces left, a maximum of 8 MSc students can join the course. Priority will be given to MSc students who wish to take the course for credit on a first come first served basis after matriculation.
** Tutorials for PG students will happen on Fridays 2.10 - 3.00pm in room 4.01 Dugald Stewart Building. |
| Course description |
Syllabus projected to include, but need not be restricted to:
Week 1 - Introduction, Kant's Copernican Revolution
Week 2 - Kant's Transcendental Deduction
Week 3 - From Kant to Hegel
Week 4 - Phenomenology of Spirit: Preface and Introduction
Week 5 - Hegel on consciousness
Week 6 - Hegel on self-consciousness
Week 7 - Hegel recap
Week 8 - Nietzsche's early philosophy: Truth and Lie in an extra-moral sense
Week 9 - Genealogy of Morality: Preface and Essay 1
Week 10 - Genealogy of Morality: Essay 2
Week 11 - Genealogy of Morality: Essay 3
Week 12 - Recap: Nietzsche, Hegel and Kant
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 8 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 12,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
170 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 2500 word essay
Assignment deadline: Thursday 17th December 2015 by 12 noon.
Word limit: 2750 words maximum (excluding references)
Return deadline: Thursday 21st January 2016 |
| Feedback |
- weekly postgraduate-only tutorials
- feedback day
- classroom and online discussion of class presentations
- opportunity to submit and receive feedback on detailed essay plan by end of week 10
- Students have the opportunity to submit a formative essay by week 6 deadline on Turnitin via Learn. The essay cannot be draft of summative essay but it can be on the same topic.
Formative essay deadline: Thursday 29th October 2015 by 12 noon
Return deadline: Friday 20th November 2015 |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
Students will come to understand:
- The nature of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' in metaphysics, and the problems it was intended to solve
- The role of the following concepts in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: concept; intuition; category; synthesis; apperception; phenomena; noumena
- The role of the following concepts in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: dialectic; the Absolute; sense-certainty; lordship and bondage
- The relationship of Hegel's absolute idealism to Kant's transcendental idealism
- The role of the following concepts in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: genealogy; master/slave moralities; ressentiment; bad conscience; ascetic ideals
- The relationship between ascetic ideals as criticised by Nietzsche and the philosophical systems of Kant and Hegel
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
Please see Learn page |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The course is taught by Dr Dave Ward
Tutorials for PG students will happen on Fridays 2.10 - 3.00pm in room 4.01 Dugald Stewart Building. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dave Ward
Tel: (0131 6)50 3652
Email: dave.ward@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lynsey Buchanan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5002
Email: Lynsey.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk |
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