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How have philosophers argued that German idealism
is Eurocentric? Do you find such arguments convincing?
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How does Kant account for the moral worth
of an action, and what is Schiller’s argument against it?
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What is Kant’s account of aesthetic
contemplation, and how does Schiller use it to critique Kant’s
account of freedom?
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What is Schiller’s moral psychology
(life drive, form drive, and play drive), and how does he use it to
reject Kant’s distinction between theoretical and practical
rationality?
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For Kant, what role do feelings and desires
play in moral self-determination? Is Schiller’s account of an
aesthetic education (Bildung) an acceptance or rejection of Kant’s
model of moral development?
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What is Kant’s famous “Epistemological
Restriction” – his “denial of knowledge to make
room for faith” – and how does Hegel argue against it?
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Kant claims that “It must be possible
for the ‘I think’ to accompany all my representations;
for otherwise something would be represented in me which could not
be thought at all, and that is equivalent to saying that the representation
would be impossible, or at least would be nothing to me (B 131f.).
How does Hegel argue against Kant’s thesis that this “transcendental
unity of apperception” thesis is the highest principle of knowledge”?
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How does Fichte argue against Kant’s
distinction between theoretical and practical rationality?
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How does Hegel appropriate Fichte’s
“original insight” into the primacy of practical rationality
to argue against Kant’s epistemological restriction?
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How would Hegel argue against Schiller’s
aesthetic model of a moral education?
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How does Hegel’s understanding of concepts
differ from Kant’s?
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How does Hegel’s understanding of intuitions
differ from Kant’s?
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How does Hegel’s understanding of feeling
and desire differ from Kant’s?
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What is Hegel’s theory of moral development,
and how does this ”Phenomenology of spirit” challenge
Kant’s understanding of feeling and desire?
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What is Kierkegaard’s critique of the
present age – his critique of modernity – and what alternative
conceptualization of human selfhood does he suggest as remedy?
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How does Kierkegaard, under the pseudonym
Johannes de Silentio, argue against Hegel’s model of human development?
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What is a defining relation, and how might
such a concept of interpersonal relations be used to critique teleological
and deontological conceptions of human bonds?
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Is Johannes de Silentio’s call for a
“teleological suspension of the ethical” a call for immoral
actions? If not, explain how it might be incorporated into an account
of moral self-determination.
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What is Kohlberg’s account of moral
development, and how does Gilligan argue against it? How would Schiller
view this debate?
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What is Kohlberg’s account of moral
development, and how does Gilligan argue against it? How How does
Nietzsche argue against Kant’s account of freedom?
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What is Kohlberg’s account of moral
development, and how does Gilligan argue against it? How would Kierkegaard
view this debate?
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How does Hegel argue against Kant’s
account of freedom?
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How does Kierkegaard argue against Kant’s
account of freedom?
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How does Nietzsche argue against Kant’s
account of freedom?
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In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche famously
claims that Kant’s categorical imperative reeks of “torture.”
First, explain what Nietzsche means in saying this, and show how if
works as a powerful attack upon Kant’s theory of action.
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How does Judith Butler appropriate Nietzsche’s
account of freedom, and how does she use this account of criticize
contemporary heterosexuality?
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How does Judith Butler argue Kant’s
account of moral self-determination?
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Explain how Nietzsche’s account of forgetfulness
questions the fundamental assumption of Kant’s epistemology:
namely, his thesis of the “transcendental unity of apperception.”
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What type of inquiry does Nietzsche propose
in his Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil, and how does
it stand to the type of inquiry Hegel proposes in his Phenomenology
of Spirit?
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What, according to Terry Pinkard, is the “Kantian
paradox,” and how does Schiller, in effect, attempt to resolve
it?
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What, according to Terry Pinkard, is the “Kantian
paradox,” and how does Hegel, in effect, attempt to resolve
it?
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What, according to Terry Pinkard, is the “Kantian
paradox,” and how does Kierkegaard, in effect, attempt to resolve
it?
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What, according to Terry Pinkard, is the “Kantian
paradox,” and how does Nietzsche, in effect, attempt to resolve
it?
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What, according to Terry Pinkard, is the “Kantian
paradox,” and does Judith Bulter’s alternative account
of emancipation exacerbate or resolve it?
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What is the significance of Hegel’s
famous master/slave “struggle for recognition” for our
understanding of human freedom? Do you find contemporary critique
of Hegel’s views convincing?
