PHIL 135 Introduction to Ethics Dr. Deborah Achtenberg

Fall 2005 Mon., Wed., Fri. 12:00-12:50 p.m.

CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN ETHICS In this course, we will read, think and talk about the views of some important continental European philosophers on ethical topics.  Philosophers we will consider include Plato, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida.          Topics:  Topics include reason and ethics, singularity or individuality, our relation to the other.  Movements considered include phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, feminism. Texts:   The Continental Ethics Reader, Matthew Callarco and Peter Atterton, editors;  From Modernism to Postmodernism:  An Anthology, Lawrence Cahoone, editor; handouts provided by the instructor. Requirements:  two quizzes, two papers, two examinations.