Anyone up for philosophical discussion?
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Anyone up for philosophical discussion?
I have just been emailed my assigned reading for my undergraduate university seminars next term. I have listed the texts below and wanted to ask if anyone would be up for sharing their expertise on any of these texts, if they have a particular interest?
I'd love to strike up an email correspondence/ ongoing discussion, and can promise to be an intrigued and enquiring learner!
Do feel free to respond with any thoughts
- Sophie
- [ ] Hobbes, Leviathan, part 1, chapters 5-6, 11, 13-15, and part 2, chaps 17-18
- [ ] Marx/Engels, The German Ideology, ed. C. J. Arthur, part 1 ‘Feuerbach’.
- [ ] Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, sections 1 and 2
- [ ] Foot, ‘Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives’, in her Virtues and Vices
- [ ] Arendt, ‘What is Freedom?’, in her Between Past and Future.
- [ ] Mill, Utilitarianism
- [x] Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, essays 1 and 2
- [ ] Sartre, ‘The Question’, ‘Negations’, ‘The Origin of Nothingness’ and ‘Conducts of Bad Faith’, in his Being and Nothingness
- [ ] Rose, Love’s Work, chapters 5-8 [i.e., the second half of the book].
- [ ] de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, last 3 paragraphs of ‘Introduction’, last 9 paragraphs of ‘The Data of Biology’, first 8 paragraphs of ‘Dreams, Fears, Idols’, ‘Woman’s Situation and Character’ as a whole, ‘Conclusion’ as a whole (= pp. 28-9, 65-9, 171-5, 608-39, & 725-41 of the 1997 ‘Vintage Classics’ edn)
- [ ] Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I, part 2 (‘The Repressive Hypothesis’), and Volume II, part 1, chapters 1 and 4 (‘Aphrodisia’ and ‘Freedom and Truth’).
- [ ] King, Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 5 (‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’) and chapter 7 (‘The Summer of our Discontent’)
- [x] Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, chapters 3-4.
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