2016 - 2017

0618-2601-01
  Advanced Course in Moral Philosophy                                                                  
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Eli FriedlanderGilman-humanities281Tue1600-1800 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description
The course will be devoted to elaborating the concept of freedom in central thinkers of the modern age. We shall consider the relationships between freedom and other central concepts in moral theory, such as nature, will, duty, community, character, sin and redemption. The basis for developing this problematic will be sought in the space opened in Kant’s writings. We shall read from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical Reason and Religion Within the Bounds of Reason Alone. The second part of the course will be devote to Hegel’s critique of Kant and to his elaboration of the internal relation between freedom and ethical life. Our readings will focus on parts of the Phenomenology of Spirit as well as the Philosophy of Right. The third part of the course will focus on the critique of morality and the relation between freedom and self-overcoming in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil.
The students registered for the course are required to take the section in which the texts of the philosophers we shall discuss will be read.The final grade will be calculated in terms of the grade for the section assignments (40%) as well that of the final in class exam for the course (60%).

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