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Vyučující
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Haničáková Lenka, Mgr.
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Goodman Russell, prof.
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Navrátilová Veronika, Mgr.
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Viktořík Michael, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Obsah předmětu
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In this course we shall study philosophical writing from various American traditions, including Puritanism, the American Enlightenment, Transcendentalism (Romanticism in America), pragmatism, and the moral epistemologies of Stanley Cavell and Cora Diamond. Readings will be from original texts and from my American Philosophy before Pragmatism. Weekly readings and topics: 14 February. Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. Readings: American Philosophy before Pragmatism, Chapters 1 and 2. 21 February. Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence; religious freedom; slavery and race in Notes on the State of Virginia. Readings: American Philosophy before Pragmatism, Chapter 3, and "Jefferson.Declaration.religion.Epicurus" 28 February. Voices of Reform. Readings: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" and "The Divinity School Address"; Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit," American Philosophy before Pragmatism, Chapter 5.1-5.4. 7 March. Emerson's mature philosophy. Readings: "Self-Reliance," "Circles," "Experience"; American Philosophy before Pragmatism, 5.5, Stanley Cavell, "Being Odd, Getting Even" (in Emerson's Transcendental Etudes). 14 March. Henry David Thoreau. Readings: "Economy," "Where I Lived and What I lived for" (in Walden); "Resistance to Civil Government"; American Philosophy before Pragmatism, Chapter 6. 21 March. Thoreau on solitude and the body. Readings: "Solitude," "The Village," "Visitors" (from Walden); "Walking"; Branka Arsić, "Embodied Knowledge" (Arsić 1, 2, and 3); American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition, 6.2d-2e. 28 March. Charles Sanders Peirce. Readings: "The Fixation of Belief," "How to Make our Ideas Clear," "Evolutionary Love" (selection). 4 April. William James. Readings: Principles of Psychology ("the stream of thought," "the self,"); "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings," "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life." 11 April. James's pragmatism. Readings: "What Pragmatism Means," "Pragmatism and Humanism" (from Pragmatism) 18 April. John Dewey. Readings: "My Pedagogic Creed"; "Nature, Life, and Body-Mind" (from Experience and Nature); "The Live Creature and 'Ethereal Things'" (from Art as Experience). 25 April. Hilary Putnam. Readings: Reason, Truth and History (selections); "Deweyan Democracy" (in Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader). 2 May. Stanley Cavell. Readings: "The Avoidance of Love: a reading of King Lear" (from Must We Mean What We Say?) (selection); "Introduction" and "Counterfeiting Happiness," from Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Film: His Girl Friday (1940) 9 May. Cora Diamond. Readings: Diamond, "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy"; J. M. Coetzee, "The Lives of Animals," in Elizabeth Costello. 16 May. Final Examination
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Studijní aktivity a metody výuky
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Přednášení, Dialogická (diskuze, rozhovor, brainstorming), Metody práce s textem (učebnicí, knihou)
- Domácí příprava na výuku
- 40 hodin za semestr
- Účast na výuce
- 20 hodin za semestr
- Příprava na zkoušku
- 20 hodin za semestr
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Výstupy z učení
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To learn something about several traditions of American thought, including the American Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and contemporary moral philosophy. The course is taught by visiting professor Russell B. GOODMAN. The course is "Lecture Oriented," with some time most meetings for questions and discussion of the readings. Readings will be available online.
A deeper understanding of the various traditions of American philosophy.
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Předpoklady
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Ability to read and write in English; some knowledge of philosophy, history, or literature.
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Hodnoticí metody a kritéria
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nespecifikováno
Attendance: 2 absences maximum. Reading of the articles and chapters listed on the syllabus, preferably before the class in which they are discussed. Final Examination.
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Doporučená literatura
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Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader. London: Routledge, 1995..
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Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage..
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Arsić, Branka. Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau..
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Cavell, Stanley. Must We Mean What We Say?: A book of essays..
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Dewey, John. ?My Pedagogic Creed? (1897), in John Dewey: The Early Works, 1882-1898, vol. 5..
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Diamond, Cora. ?The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy,? in Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 1:2 (2003), 1-26.
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Ed. David Justin Hodge. Emerson?s Transcendental Etudes..
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Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Art as Experience. John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925?1953. Vol. 10..
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Ed. Jo Ann Boydston. Experience and Nature. John Dewey: The Later Works, vol. 1..
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10 Vols..
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Fuller, Margaret. ?The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women,? in Transcendentalism: A Reader..
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Goodman, Russell B. American Philosophy before Pragmatism..
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James, William. The Principles of Psychology..
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Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Walden..
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