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KFR / MREA2
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KFR
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MREA2
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Reading Seminar in Philosophy II
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 5
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0 / 0
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0 / 15
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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SYLLABUS
Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian Ethics
(MREA2)
Thursdays, 14 - 16
Room: EB 11026
The aim of this reading course is to introduce the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and to bring its relevance for ethics into view. The first half of the course include larger segments of lectures, although we will always make plenty of room for conversation. In the first half, we will mostly study parts of Wittgenstein's philosophical writings, although some secondary literature will be used as well. The second half of the course consists of seminar discussions of some central texts in ethics that draw on Wittgenstein's philosophical thinking.
The literature for this course will consists of a selection from some of Wittgenstein's most important texts, plus a selection of articles. Some of these articles are commentaries on Wittgenstein's philosophy, serving the purpose of making it easier for us to work our way through the material; but others are more original philosophical contributions that make theory own philosophical points, while they also illustrate what it might mean to do ethical thinking in the wake of Wittgenstein's work. (The list of texts listed below may change a bit during the course. I want to be able to tweak this selection a little bit depending on how the discussion in the group develops, and in relation to the interests of the participants.)
Literature
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 2 edition (London & New York: Routledge, 2001); ibid.; Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, ed. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, trans. Denis Paul (Oxford: Blackwell, 1969).
Wittgenstein, "A Lecture on Ethics," The Philosophical Review, Jan., 1965, Vol. 74, No. 1 (Jan., 1965), pp. 3-12
Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, ed. Giovanni da Col and Stephan Palmié (Chicago, IL: HAU, 2020).
O'Connor, Peg, "Moving to New Boroughs: Transforming the World by Inventing Language Games," in Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, eds. Naomin Scheeman and Peg O'Connor (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002)
Scheman, Naomi, "Introduction," in Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, eds. Naomin Scheman and Peg O'Connor (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002)
Baker, Nancy, E., "Wittgenstein, Feminism, and the Exclusions of Philosophy," in Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, eds. Naomin Scheeman and Peg O'Connor (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002)
Conant, James & Cora Diamond, "On Reading the Tractatus Resolutely,"
Conant, "What Ethics in the Tractatus is Not," in Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy, eds. Mario van der Ruhr and D. Z. Philips (London: Routledge, 2005).
Mulhall, Stephen, "Ethics in the Light Of Wittgenstein, Philosophical Papers 31(3): 293-321
Crary, Alice, "Ethics, Inheriting from Wittgenstein," Ch. 3 Crary, Beyond Moral Judgment (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Diamond, Cora, "Eating Meat and Eating People," in The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind, reprint edition (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991).
Cavell, Stanley, Cavell, "Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language," in The New Wittgenstein (London: Routledge, 2000).
Richter, Duncan, "Sketches of Blurred Landscapes: Wittgenstein and Ethics," in Reshef Agam-Segal and Edmund Dain (eds.), Wittgenstein's Moral Thought (London: Routledge, 2018).
Winch, Peter, "Moral Integrity," from Winch's Ethics and Action (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1972)
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Requirements on student
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Examination
(a) Term paper:
You are required to write a term paper (3.500 - 4.500 words). The topic is open, but it must be on the work we discuss. The topic should be organized around a clear research question. Do not merely reproduce basics from the literature, but engage with a problem or difficulty related to the philosophical texts we have discussed, and provide textual references. We trust you to find your own theme, but it is advisable to have us check your topic before you start writing.
(b) Active Participation
You are required to participate actively (with a minimum of 75% attendance) in the discussion during class.
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Content
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1. Thursday, February 15 Tractatus I
2. Thursday, February 22 No class
3. Thursday, February 29 Tractatus II
4. Thursday, March 7: A Lecture on Ethics
5. Thursday, March 14: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
6. Thursday, March 21: No class
7. Thursday, March 28: Philosophical Investigations I
8. Thursday, April 4: Philosophical Investigations II
9. Thursday, April 11: On Certainty
10. Thursday, April 18: Discussion Seminar
11. Thursday, April 25: Discussion Seminar
12. Thursday, May 2: Discussion Seminar
13. Thursday May 9: Discussion Seminar
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Judith Butler. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". New York: Routledge. 1993.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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Teaching methods |
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Assessment methods |
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