M 1/13: Course introduction
A Stable, Transcendental Self?
W 1/15: Charles Guignon, “The Culture of Authenticity” in On Being Authentic (pp. 1–11)
F 1/17: Charles Guignon, “The Enchanted Garden” in On Being Authentic (pp. 12–25)
M 1/20: NO CLASS – MLK DAY
W 1/22: Augustine, “Aged Thirty-One” (“The Birthpangs of Conversion”) in Confessions (pp. 141–162)
F 1/25: Charles Guignon, “The Modern Worldview” in On Being Authentic (pp. 26–48)
M 1/27: René Descartes, “Dedication,” “Preface,” “Synopsis,” and “First Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 3–17)
W 1/29: René Descartes, Second Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 17–24)
F 1/31: René Descartes, “Third Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 25–37)
M 2/3: René Descartes, “Fourth Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 38–45)
W 2/5: René Descartes, “Fifth Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 45–51)
F 2/7: René Descartes, “Sixth Meditation” in Meditations on First Philosophy (pp. 51–64)
M 2/10: David Hume, “Of personal identity” (Book I, Part 6, sect. 6) in A Treatise of Human Nature (pp. 164–171)
W 2/12: Immanuel Kant, A103-A124 in Critique of Pure Reason (pp. 230–240)
F 2/14: Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” in Practical Philosophy (pp. 17-22)
M 2/17: Emmanuel Eze, “Race: A Transcendental?” in Achieving Our Humanity (pp. 77–106)
W 2/19: Charles Mills, “Alternative Epistemologies” in Blackness Visible (pp. 21–39)
Freedom
F 2/21: Amia Srinivasan, “The Aptness of Anger” in The Journal of Political Philosophy 26.2 (pp. 123–144)
M 2/24: Harry Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” in The Journal of Philosophy 68.1 (pp. 5–20)
W 2/26: Hannah Arendt, “Thinking and Moral Considerations: A Lecture” in Social Research 38.3 (pp. 417–446)
F 2/28: NO CLASS
M 3/2: Gary Watson, “Free Agency” in The Journal of Philosophy 72.8 (pp. 205–220)
- Visiting speaker Trip Glazer
Complicating the Self
W 3/4: Charles Guignon, “Romanticism and the Ideal of Authenticity” in On Being Authentic (pp. 49–77)
F 3/6: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “First Walk” and “Second Walk” in Reveries of the Solitary Walker (pp. 3–19)
M 3/16: Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Third Walk” in Reveries of the Solitary Walker (pp. 20–32)
W 3/18: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Fourth Walk” in Reveries of the Solitary Walker (pp. 33–48)
F 3/20: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Fifth Walk” in Reveries of the Solitary Walker (pp. 49–58)
M 3/23: Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Eighth Walk” and “Ninth Walk” in Reveries of the Solitary Walker (pp. 83–106)
W 3/25: Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit (pp. 1–67)
F 3/27: Charles Guignon, “The Heart of Darkness” in On Being Authentic (pp. 78–106)
M 3/30: Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra’s Prologue; On the Three Metamorphoses; On the Thousand and One Goals; On the Bestowing Virtue in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (pp. 3–17, 42–44, 55–59)
W 4/1: Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Blessed Isles; On the Pitying; On Priests; On the Tarantulas; On the Famous Wise Men; On Self-Overcoming; On Redemption; The Stillest Hour in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (pp. 65–71, 76–81, 88–90, 109–112, 115–117)
F 4/3: Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Vision and the Riddle; On the Spirit of Gravity; On Old and New Tablets; The Convalescent; On Great Longing; The Seven Seals (Or: the Yes and Amen Song) in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (pp. 123–127, 153–181, 184–187)
M 4/6: Charles Guignon, “De-Centering the Subject” in On Being Authentic (pp. 107–125)
W 4/8: Charles Guignon, “Story-Shaped Selves” in On Being Authentic (pp. 126–145)
F 4/10: Marya Schechtman, “The Narrative Self-Constitution View” in The Constitution of Selves (pp. 93–135)
M 4/13: Galen Strawson, “The Unstoried Life” in Things That Bother Me (pp. 177–201)
Transforming the Self
W 4/15: L.A. Paul, “Becoming a Vampire” in Transformative Experience (pp. 1–4)
F 4/17: L.A. Paul, “Transformative Choice” in Transformative Experience (pp. 5–51)
M 4/20: L.A. Paul, “Life Choices” in Transformative Experience (pp. 52–104)
W 4/22: L.A. Paul, “The Shock of the New” in Transformative Experience (pp. 105–123)
F 4/24: David Friedell, “Becoming Non-Jewish”
M 4/27: Charles Guignon, “Authenticity in Context” in On Being Authentic (pp. 146–168)