Next Week: Kierkegaard on the Suspension of the Ethical

24 May

Bust out a pipe and your best French accent, as we spend the summer and fall discussing authenticity, freedom, and angst with our next unit on Existential Ethics.

Tonight: 05/28 – Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, “Problema 1” and “Problema 2.”

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring a copy (digital or paper) copy of the reading with you to the meeting.

Location: Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.

SCHEDULE:

  • 05/14 – Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit,  “Spirit that is Certain of Itself. Morality.”
  • 05/21 – NO MEETING
  • 05/28 – Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, “Problema 1” and “Problema 2.”
  • 06/04 – Stirner, Max. The Ego and Its Own, “The Owner” and “My Power.”
  • 06/11 – Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground, “Part 1: Underground”
  • 06/18 – Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morals, “‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad’.”
  • 06/25 – Cooper, Anna Julia. “The Ethics of the Negro Question.” 
  • 07/02 – NO MEETING
  • 07/09 – Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folks, “Of the Sons of Master and Man.”
  • 07/16 – Kafka, Franz. “The Judgment” and Butler, Judith. “Giving an Account of Oneself, “The Limits of Judgment.”
  • 07/23 – Scheler, Max. Ressentiment, “Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement” and “Christian Morality and Ressentiment.”
  • 07/30 – Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, “Dasein’s Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness.”
  • 08/06 – Zapffe, Peter Wessel . “The Last Messiah”
  • 08/13 – Weil, Simone. “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.”
  • 08/20 – Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom, TBD.
  • 08/27 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Existentialism is a Humanism.”
  • 09/03 – Heidegger, Martin. “Letter on Humanism.”
  • 09/10 – Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception, “Freedom.”
  • 09/17 – de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity, “Ambiguity and Freedom.”
  • 09/24 – Camus, Albert, The Rebel, “The Rebel,” “Absolute Negation,” and “Absolute Affirmation.”
  • 10/01 – Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, “Prologue” and “Battle Royal”
  • 10/08 – Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask, “The Negro and Psychopathology.”
  • 10/15 – Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Who is Man?, TBD. 
  • 10/22 – Levinas, Emmanuel. “Ethics as First Philosophy”
  • 10/29 – Murdoch, Iris. The Sovereignty of the Good, “On God and the Good”
  • 11/05 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique of Dialectical Reason, “The Storming of the Bastille.”
  • 11/12 – Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father, “Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality”
  • 11/19 – Soloveitchik, Joseph. Halakhic Man, TBD. 
  • 11/26 – NO MEETING
  • 12/03 – Caputo, John. Against Ethics, TBD. 
  • 12/10 – Gordon, Lewis. “Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism.”
  • 12/17 – Morrison, Roy D. “Self-Transformation in American Blacks” in Existence in Black

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

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